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What’s the dip tube? 3/8 of stainless? I used stainless straw as the length was ok ish. I can’t remember the od. Though I did browse straws in tk maxx

Sorry missed this. I will need to check but I remember had a reducer 3/8 to I forgot maybe 3/16 and ran the beer line through it into the 3/8 tee with 3/8 end cap on other end. The stainless straw I forgot the measurement had a siphon pipe off cut in it to hold it in place but to be honest is...

Just plump your chiller into the heating system? I expect someone in the world has done it for their mash tun rather than chilling.

I Tried PWM modules on alternative setup to limit pump speed and for me they didn’t work that well. They made the pump noisey and limited the maximum (100%) flow. When I removed them all was well so I think valves on output will be better option.

Probably not useful to you but I got this stainless tool hanger. It’s 34cm long pre drilled holes and I think the bends are at 29.5cm ish so I use it to bridge a stainless steel vessel. Also picked up the hanging spatula so that hangs off the stainless steel vessel...

I came across the grainfather 40 litre sparse water heater. Is it ‘new’ as I don’t know how I missed it! Looks like standard manufacturer (re-branded?) with ball valve , 2300W element for £140. Does anyone have one, and can it do a rolling boil ? I need to check the dimensions but really...

Haha difficult to get that past the other half ?

Wow 200 litres. Is that what the maths comes out as ?

Yeah if lager wasn’t mentioned I would be thinking it’s stalled. My winter ales brews stalled to high ish consequent day gravity reading with strong diacetyl. I had no temp control though. In summer I get fruity Belgian tastes :)

£3.25 delivered. Crazy prices. Are they decent.

Cheers I forgot about the pump section. There is no valve to turn off and on so I guess it would be full during the ferment.

It would tie up the brewing kettle but I’m interested if anyone has fermented directly in the Grainfather G30 over northern hemisphere winter ? My understanding is the controller is a PID so if one set the temperature to say 18C would it be able to control the heating at that low level or is the...

Living the dream eh?

Yeah I’m interested in the code and charting. I experimented with pulling JSON data off a salus iT500 heating controller but only used scripting off a free create your own website with the obvious data risks pointed out earlier. I also wrote a crude JSON parser (not sure why) to scrape the data...

just looking at the chart. Are you doing a lager?

I’m using a tea urn setup. Did you guys build overflows into the baskets to stop a boil dry incident? I only used basket on stovetop at lower volumes so there wasnt so much of an issue there.

Sorry so are you pumping the mash about through the pipe or pumping clear water through pipe as heat exchanger into another vessel? Hopefully that makes sense

It looks like a similar boiler. What pump do you use?

Yeah I was thinking about a heat exchanger. Well using the copper chiller dual purpose. I like the idea of using it to control mash temps and cool. I haven’t totally thought it through though.

Recirculation and after boil (edit chilling) transfer wort to fermenter. Sort of following inspiration from on the forum and YouTube member Tube dinoz. It’s got a couple of glitches I need to iron out.