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No one has claimed it has. What was actually claimed was that it presented a danger to a single 2.2kw element drawing a mere 9 amps on a socket that is rated to take 13 amps. The idea that it presents a problem cannot be empirically established by any scientific method and is infact quite...

a 2.2KW element @240V draws 9.16 amps why would you need a 40amp solid state relay and heat sink? why would anyone have a problem running that on a system with the capacity to handle four 13amp elements like an extension lead?

Thanks for your concerns but if I need electrical advice I ask my father who has been a qualified electrical engineer for more than fifty years. A 2.2KW element @240V draws 9.16 amps, the STC-1000 is safely rated at 10amps. Why are you saying that it will suffer overheating and meltdown?

LOL legendary!

hmmm does 'not the same results' equate to 'better results' or merely different results? Anyway rather interestingly I was watching a video of a dude raising the temperature in his tun by injecting steam and wondered what you thought about this method?

I don't think there are any serious safety concerns. I have two independently powered 2.2K Watt elements in my HLT. Both switched and both fused at multiple points.. I will control the temperature of the liquor by STC-1000 programmable temp controller on both elements independently. None of...

I see. . . . .and these multi step mashes are deemed to be critical to the style, its very interesting. More reading is needed because there seems to be a kind of scientific consensus that by the using modern modified grain it cuts out the necessity of some of these steps for example there is no...

Interesting. I have no plans to open a microbrewery but I do like the idea of being able to control fairly well the temperature of ones mash. Normally if one knows ones equipment you can get it dead on due to experience but having the flexibility may be important too. At this stage i don't...

This is true. Do many people use unmodified grains these days?

it is my understanding that with a grasp of water chemistry we can accomplish all of these things, malty, crisp, balanced etc and mash out temperature is not so difficult either.

perhaps you can elaborate on this stepping ones way through a mash profile.

hmm isn't that interesting. I have two options to either make a wort chiller and submerge it in my HLT and circulate the wort through that. This requires a single pump or to make a counterflow wort chiller and circulate both the wort and the water from the HLT which would require two pumps. I...

I am actually wondering how much of a difference a Herms setup would make and is it worth the hassle? If I heat my water to 84 Celsius and let the tun absorb 9 Celsius my strike water is usually 74 Celsius, 5Kg of grain reduces this to 66 Celsius and the tun keeps the heat for an hour no...

I think he bought another one, a 20 litre one this time, guy has too much money and not enough kids. :P I don't have any leaks and i don't really loose any temperature this is due to heating my water a good ten degrees above my strike water temp and letting the tun absorb it all. so if I am...

yeah i went through the same experience, used to like Stella, cannot put it near my mouth anymore.

I read somewhere that its racked off to avoid any potentially unsavoury yeast character that may become apparent because of the beer being in prolonged contact with the yeast bed. This is the idea behind a conical fermenter in that the surface area of the yeast bed/trub etc is a smaller surface...

Yes brewtarget runs on linux and is awesome. The only thing it lacks is a water treatment section. The software I use for water is the amazing bru n water, water treatment spreadsheet, also works on linux.

no cant say that i have, perhaps a little DME added to the sugar might work?

yes indeed. I have found that 15mm copper pipe fits very snuggle into a garden hose. This will form the outer connection, through that will go either 10mm or 8mm copper pipe. One end will connect into the hose and the other end will need to be sealed with a reducer, 15mm to 10mm or 8mm. A tee...

I wonder if 8mm pipe would be even better than 10mm to increase the cold water to hot water ratio, thus increasing efficiency? im sure all my present plastic hoses for racking canes and bottling wands are 8mm. hmmmm.