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Got pretty severe CP, hands tingle just typing this. I don't work as hard with my hands as used to but it is what it is. surgery is not an option as the healing process is 4-6 months and my livelihood depends on using my hands. A little bit of exercise and stretching helps. Wearing braces to bed lik...

and.. scorch. So much for that batch.. the life of a distiller. Racked, let it settle and took off the top clear but the soup had enough rye in it to stick to the element. Heated up super slow knowing it might, stirred but noticed the bubbles coming up were brown and then saw some wisps of smoke, su...

Good news, She finished up on Thursday evening with an SG of 1.00 Shut off the water jacket and let her cold crash out there in the cold mudroom. Strained and pressed the mush today so it can settle for a sunday afternoon run. Still haven't decided if I'll one and done with the thumper full of slop ...

Pitched the yeast before bed last night and this morning she was a churning good. from back yard corn Wait and see next weekend how she turns out. Not surprising to me. Most backyard grown crops get a lot better care than commercially grown. If my tomatoes looked and tasted like what I get a Kroger ...

After moving up north and acquiring a large garden I looked into some corn and found the Montana Cuda corn, a special breed from an old indian corn high in starch used for cornmeal and celebrations. Planted the entire garden, harvested, dried and finally got around to getting the mill going and ran ...

RIP Truckinbutch

I moved to Montana on 27 acres last year. I’ve got 250 seeds of Montana Cudu Corn that was bred by Ed Shultz for the short growing season going in the garden this year. Its mostly a cornmeal type breed so should grind up nice in the fall.

Been using a modified corona mill like above i got from a thrift store for 5 bucks. Harbor freight 1/2 low speed high torque drill grinds through a bag of white corn down to chunky meal in about an hour.

Check the dishwasher outlet, its usually a 20amp dedicated 110 plug.

Think I finally found the answer..found these guys for a different filtration application and stumbled upon some of the other things they make. Check out the rest of the stuff, filtration gold mine.

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Once you have some yeast, you can grow more and never run out.
Look into yeast propagation and how to store yoour colonies long term.

Any of the wharehouse stores ( costco, sams smart and final) will have the 50lb sacks in the baking isle.

Chuggers are the standard for moving hot mash and wort around.

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Moved up to the mountains and yeah my baking is wacked but the still runs on flavor and smells

I grew up in RI.. the white horse was a right of passage for many as was knights liquors on broadway.

450 for that.. woah!! No way, you can make the same controller for a fraction of the cost.

We have much befter controllers posted and built with complete links to items in the electric section.

Whoops my bad.. yes 220 is a single hot with a neutral

The difference is hours of your life. 220 is two 110 lines with a neutral return. 240 is two 110 lines with no neutral return and is specificly designed for resistance type appliances. Water heters and clothes dryers. You want to unplug your dryer and use that 240 outlet with a basic SCR or SSR cont...

Switching to 240v is literally getting hours of your life back. It really is. It used to take me all day sunday to strip twice and mash in for next week. I was done and on the couch by 1pm this time. Sounds like it's time to start planning a 15 gallon boiler :ewink: Ive been planning that keg for o...

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The only real concern for tap water is if your municipality uses chloramine as it can cause some yeast to give off a medical band aid taste. Its easy to remove with campden tablets from the bew shop.

HDNB wrote:i'm putting my money on about a half hour.

I didnt time it per say but yep, right around half hour on the test run. Just about 45 minites for the strip run from 60 to first drip. That first drip used to take almost 2.5 hours.

After all these years of working with 110.. i finally upgraded my SCR controller with some 10/3 and L6-30 plugs and whatnot, hooked it up to the extra dryer outlet in the basement wash room complete with slop sink, floor drain, two windows and an un-used dryer vent for exhausting the fermenting clos...

A peated scotch was the first AG i attempted all those years ago and it came out really good. With this new round of information and ideas, think ill swing by the brew shop and grab some barley and get the old mash-sparge tun dusted off for a couple 6 gallon ferments. This should be a nice break fro...

Check out the google search, this topic has been hit on many times before ranging from boxes, fridges, wrap heaters and aquariam heaters.

I use an electric blanket wrapped around my 20 gal rubbermaid to keep mash at 90 for bakers or 72 for US05

Had a busy weekend of squeezing and stillin. Got a great conversion but had a stall at 1.015 for two days so ran it this evening after racking last night. Mop wringer and a brew bag made short work of the mush, 9 gallons of liquid sat overnight to settle out. Filled the boiler, slop in the thumper a...

Its youtube and that channel and video is monitized. They dont care about accurate content, just that you click and watch so they get paid.

My label says contains a blend of food safe buffering phosphates.

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I got my plates from twisted last year and built my shotgun with them. Went together so simple and easy.
Thanks again!

Half dozen 6 gal Glass carboys for racking, sugar and sparged grain wort.
15 gal BOP for AG on the grain cook/ferment
20 gal Rubbermaid for the UJSSM

With an 8 gallon boiler i get two strip runs per batch, takes two batches for a spirit run.

I gave the drill a good pull once and mash ended up on the floor so wont be doing that again. A simple motor with two pulleys to create a slow rpm stir is all i need.
Would be a good excuse to get a grain mill and share the motor.