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- Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:23 am
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: VM Column Build
- Replies: 76
- Views: 6445
Re: VM Column Build
You might also find some PTFE gaskets suck because they are malformed and another one works well.
- Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:00 am
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: Question about electric boilers
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3516
Re: Question about electric boilers
True that, but with PWM the ammeter just flips up and down not providing an average. I guess what I have is called a "multi function power meter". I was glad to see I'm getting 245 VAC. It seems to show that whenever I power it up which is admittedly a small sample. Better a favorable read...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:56 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: Question about electric boilers
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3516
Re: Question about electric boilers
I can drive the boil by the PWM % as the reference without regard to the amps or watts. The ammeter has other useful features in that it tells me lots more like kWh used. I also use the setup for an HLT control where the ammeter works as expected.
- Sun Feb 20, 2022 7:57 am
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: Question about electric boilers
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3516
Re: Question about electric boilers
Again, just put the meter on the input side before the controller. It'll show you the draw, without being exposed to the weird waveform. Ez PZ. Sadly if the controller is using pulse width modulation the meter will show the current draw at the time so you see it switch between full on an off. You d...
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:59 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Moonshiners, are they for real
- Replies: 78
- Views: 12513
Re: Moonshiners, are they for real
The fact is, if you're not selling booze and you're not making HUGE quantities, they probably just don't care. I agree. I live in a city with a police department, but I asked a local sheriff in a dry county. They said someone making some homemade beer or liquor for their own consumption was not int...
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:45 am
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Ferm-Solutions Enzymes
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11272
Re: Ferm-Solutions Enzymes
Thanks Powder Monkey and Twisted Brick. I would expect that alpha would get complete conversion of the starch but leave some complex, unfermentable sugars that the gluco would cut up so the yeast could eat all simple sugars. I was wondering what the gravity would be after the alpha got done and then...
- Fri Feb 11, 2022 5:44 pm
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Ferm-Solutions Enzymes
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11272
Re: Ferm-Solutions Enzymes
Have you measured gravity before and after the GA? I am curious how much it changed.Twisted Brick wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:03 am That's interesting. I've always relied on gluco to 'finish' conversion so I could get an OG.
- Thu Feb 10, 2022 11:19 am
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Rehydrated 1 year old yeast did not swell like it used to be.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1208
Re: Rehydrated 1 year old yeast did not swell like it used to be.
I read that hydrating yeast in proper temp water was ideal prior to pitching and that hydrating yeast in wash, water with sugar and pitching directly into a wash kills off much yeast. Is this a myth or just overthinking things? While yeast re-hydrate the cell membranes don't control what comes into...
- Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:55 am
- Forum: Alcohol as Fuel
- Topic: Doug's continuous distillation
- Replies: 165
- Views: 34409
Re: Doug's continuous distillation
Ultimately, the only WORK done is lifting the etoh vapors at the top up to the condenser. Perhaps I understand you wrong. But what about reflux? For rectification you need reflux. And reflux costs energy. For a result of 96%abv directly from a wash you clearly have to reflux something like 4/5 of t...
- Wed Feb 02, 2022 5:54 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Anyone use a boresnake for cleaning.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 796
Re: Anyone use a boresnake for cleaning.
I'd use a beer line cleaner for quick brushing.
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- Sun Jan 30, 2022 9:37 am
- Forum: Other Hobbies and Projects
- Topic: rifles
- Replies: 726
- Views: 131308
Re: rifles
Hopefully you can take some arms from them before your stash runs out in a pinch too.Truckinbutch wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:26 pm I try to focus on what I can resupply from an OPPFORCE . Social breakdown may make that a necessity ,
- Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:44 am
- Forum: Legalization of Home Distilling
- Topic: A bit of good news for home distilling
- Replies: 58
- Views: 14285
Re: A bit of good news for home distilling
It sounds like reasonable cover for someone making liquor at home for their own and family consumption. I hope it spreads to other states until congress agrees too.
- Sat Jan 22, 2022 6:53 pm
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: Large oil/steam jacketed boiler questions
- Replies: 47
- Views: 6776
Re: Large oil/steam jacketed boiler questions
Another caveat is Pulse Width Modulation(PWM). It's a technique that involves cycling the power on an off to control power. The system I use one sets the power to some fraction as a percentage and the controller turns the power on and off to represent the fractional power. This controls a boil very ...
- Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:58 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Fermenter/Still ???
- Replies: 5
- Views: 457
Re: Fermenter/Still ???
I have heard of others using a heating element to sanitize a fermenter. You should be able to make it work with caveats mentioned like not scorching contents and keeping the element submerged.
- Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:20 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Meme’s
- Replies: 1515
- Views: 242859
- Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:54 am
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: conical fermenter as a boiler
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3927
- Thu Dec 23, 2021 6:48 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: What still to built or buy?
- Replies: 494
- Views: 320650
Re: What still to built or buy?
Have you ever wished you went with 3" stainless steel?kimbodious wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 3:36 pm Go modular! My stills are 2” stainless steel. I use a copper potscourer or two for copper in the vapour path. Check out the pics from the links in my signature.
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:06 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Got a 100 litre batch of turbo pure 48 stalled?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3296
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:46 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Baileys Irish Cream Clone
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11246
Re: Baileys Irish Cream Clone
I have curdled commercial bourbon cream by adding more bourbon.
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:38 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: product condenser wierdness
- Replies: 2
- Views: 565
product condenser wierdness
While running water only for a cleaning/testing run I wanted to see how much power the product condenser could handle. It was a half hearted attempt since I didn't have the parts to run the PC off of the tap and rigged a pump pushing tap water from a bucket. The still is a sanke keg 15.5g boiler wit...
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 7:05 pm
- Forum: Safety and Related Issues
- Topic: Silicone tubing.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5596
Re: Silicone tubing.
Even stainless has lots of incompatible things, but PTFE was straight A's.
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 6:46 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Filthy brand new stainless still dragon parrot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 825
Re: Filthy brand new stainless still dragon parrot
I like to remove organic crap from stainless with a hot (160F) PBW soak. That'll probably work on that waxy compound. I also like Barkeeper's Friend and would scrub it after the soak.
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 1:58 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Baileys Irish Cream Clone
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11246
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:57 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Absorption and Displacement
- Replies: 5
- Views: 746
Re: Absorption and Displacement
One of the brewing software packages I use to calculate this uses (0.12 gallons) / pound of grain. This is primarily barley and I don't squeeze the grain. Some others say as high as 0.2 gallons per pound. I suspect that this is the rule of thumb you already know. Since the OG is important for beer m...
- Wed Dec 15, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Equalizing a column or getting everything in the boiler upto temp.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 8618
Re: Equalizing a column or getting everything in the boiler upto temp.
Theres more than one account in the element height threads of being able to put a hand comfortably on the bottom of a boiler mid run, very much implies mixing not happening. ( Dont yell at me if you try this at home and burn yourself folks :roll: ) I found this to be exactly the case during my clea...
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:45 pm
- Forum: Related Electric Accessories
- Topic: Scr question
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3942
Re: Scr question
You can use this chart based on length and amperage image.png 10 awg should be fine. 5500w / 240v = 22.91A / 0.8 margin of safety = 28.64 A. As long as your total run is less than 50' you should have acceptable drop. I agree with you about 10awg being sufficient. I would suggest the wire needs to b...
- Thu Nov 18, 2021 7:49 am
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: Converting a keg to an electric boiler
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4081
Re: Converting a keg to an electric boiler
I think you will have success welding a ferule on top and making colum adapters from caps like you asked about. I did something similar. I had an 8" ferule welded on top and purchased one of these https://www.brewershardware.com/images/product/tccapred80x30x15x15.jpg https://www.brewershardware...
- Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:01 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Question about bugs
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4077
Re: Question about bugs
Get a used deep freezer from the used appliance store and keep your grains in it (frozen, of course) until you need it to brew. Freezing will hold moisture in the grains and kill insect larvae (which almost all grain contains, even commercially malted grains). A cheap $100USD freezer will help a lo...
- Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:13 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: All grain twins one smells bad other does not
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3165
Re: All grain twins one smells bad other does not
I may not be understanding your yeast process. I would caution against adding DAP before the yeast get re-hydrated. The dry yeast doesn't have as much control over what enters the cell and the DAP can be toxic before they can regulate it's uptake. So I have read. Like Shadylane said. You probably do...
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:38 pm
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Tailored Organic Staggered Nutrient Addition (TOSNA)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1647
Re: Tailored Organic Staggered Nutrient Addition (TOSNA)
I know some commercial mead makers front load the nutrients when making a hydromel/session mead (~8%abv) and use US-05 to boot. I am sure you could very successfully crate a protocol to use these nutrients but might not need to stagger them.