Jim's Beer Kit

Thanks for that fil, very useful. Does this element need a wider hole on the underneath of a thermo pot for securing?

Hi Eclipse Why not get a cheap Tesco kettle and strip the element out of it or better still why noit use the kettle. get a copper coil fitted inside it and run it off a PID controller 2014-07-27 19.02.22.jpg Regards Patch Hi mate, as it happens I already use exactly this for my current herms setup....

Cheers Aleman. I'm torn between going for the burco one with the large nut or the cheaper unbranded stainless one as further up in this post.

Decisions decisions....

Does anyone know what size hole I would need to drill in the outer skin of the thermopot underside in order to fit a burco element in the base? I gather the inner hole for the element itself to fit through is 40mm. I only have a 51mm holesaw for the outer skin. Would this be wide enough to get the n...

Cheers guys. So stuff to think about. How much was the stainless coil from mrlard if you dont mind me asking?

So I did my 2nd herms brewday on Friday. This time I used my newly completed 50 litre thermo pot false bottom mash tun. It was a much better brewday than I had previously. A couple of things not quite perfect though. The pid was set to a mash of 66 degrees this time. I heated the strike temp to 74 a...

Hi guys. I have a 6 litre thermo pot from Bergland that I'm planning on converting to a little herms pot. I've seen people use elements that are fitted in the bottom section of these pots bit I'm insure where people get these specific elements from? What size do they have to be? I would ideally like...

Cheers mate. Will probably do that. Would a piece of tin foil with holes in it work in a similar sort of way until I can get the bits together to build one?

That a very good point about the channelling! I hadnt thought of that. I've just completed my thermo pot mash tun and this has a false bottom. Do you think this will mean no channeling? Even if I still lay the return hose ontop of the grain bed? I'm hoping to have another brewday either today or thi...

Thanks for the great pictures, i'm planning on a thermo hlt and a thermo mash tun in the near future , both 80l , what false bottom are you going for? I went for the brewbuilder false bottom. I have just fitted the 3 piece ball valve tap tonight aswell. I decided to grind the threads out of a 1/2" ...

Thought I would put up a few pictures of my recent mash tun build to help any fellow brewers out incase anyone has a build planned for the future. Parts Used: 50 litre thermo pot from bergland thermo pot bottom drain kit from brewbuilder ptfe tape 51mm starrett tct holesaw angle grinder with SS cutt...

OK, so I got my replacement deck drain today from brewbuilder. I managed to fit everything and leak tested with a full 50 litres of water in the tun. No leaks! I did use about 10 - 12 wraps of PTFE tape around the deck drain threads though! And a nice silicon o ring on the inside of the tun undernea...

Sounds great! Do you have any pics of the work out did underneath the tun?

Cheers guys. Some sound advice there. Im hoping my next herms brewday will be with my new thermo lot tun which has a false bottom rather than a copper slotted manifold.

I'll also have a tinker with my pid and see if I can calibrate the pt100 probe.

So I tried HERMS forthe1st time over the weekend. The brew was a mosaic pale ale. Target mash temp was 65, so I had my pid set to that (the pt100 was in a t piece on the coil output return to the top of the mash tun. I had a thermometer in the centre of the mash tun to compare this to the target the...