Jim's Beer Kit

no, although i run mine for 30-40 mins for an evenings pour, you can expect the chiller to run for a few hours to build up an ice wall and then shut down only restarting when the cold store(ice wall) gets diminished through use, at which point the compressor should run for 20+ minutes to make up the...

switch to using co2 not mixed gas if you can, mixed gas helps push beer through long feeds of beerline without disrupting the condition level maintained by the temp and pressure within the keg. as your not pushing thru 40/50m or more of beer line and are not serving stout or a creamflow bitter co2 i...

kettle elements often come with some dryboil protection, with my old blue barrel boiler fitted with 2x budget kettle elements this took the shape of a 'pingring' (Bi-metalic ring that would ping /spring into a new shape once hot enough), which in turn pushed in a small white pin to break the electri...

i brew with electric elements, and unless you brew excessively heavy and complex grain bill brews the risk from scorching from yor bog standard £5 budget kettle elements, probaly £10 budget kettle elements these days?? Is minimal.. so nice lwd elements are not a must have.. saying that using nice lw...

if needed expand the condensation drain hole at the rear of the fridge, a wipe with epoxy or silicone will reseal the foam insulation within the plastic shell after drilling. tho afaik most mass produced fridges recently manufactured will have cooling concentrated at the back wall unless its a premi...

I think you have had enough tinkering for the w/end tho Chris, your starting to see breweries in everything ;) just had a look at the pic and had a thought, dump the sanitiser and cleaner tanks and replace then with small volume feeds to contain the concentrated liquids and just divert the hot water...

perhaps? try pulling the co2 out, it will perform better @ room temps and your reg wont die as early due to condensation too.

adding a pc case fan powered by a spare dc power brick could sort out air movement..

you still want to keep the keg as cool as possible to minimise the work the chiller has to do otherwise you may need to plumb the line back thru a 2nd and 3rd product coil to achieve the chill necessary. and warmer the beer is sat the higher the pressure you will need to maintain to keep the beer co...

If you have the power capacity to supply a 3kw element you can probably boil with that alone if you partially lid the kettle or utilise a large surface area hop spider as i do as this enables me to maintain a rolling biol in my 98l stock pot kettle on a 2.4 or 3kw element ( i have both fitted)

just separate the thermal switch from the base and do a test boil with a salt solution to raise the boil temp close to that of wort.
if it still cuts out also pull the temp probe from making positive contact with the pot underside.

I dont have a boiler like yours.. The components you may have involved in the control circuit are 1) Thermal switch 2) thermal fuse 3)thermostat control. the thermal switch will look something like this: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vBUAAOSwTHZZzyCs/s-l300.jpg I would suggest unbolting this from t...

Yes!! simply unbolting the thermal switch from making positive contact with the base/element underside will render it inoperative (unless the void under the element reaches the trigger temp- unlikely..) While keeping the boil dry protection offered by any thermal fuses employed. Thanks! Will it be ...

as long as you step up to a reasonable starter volume ensuring that all sugars are exhasted after each step up before adding more volume/sugar you should build up a full population for pitching. once the final steps additions are exhausted you can simply keep the population dormant in the fridge.

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Yes!! simply unbolting the thermal switch from making positive contact with the base/element underside will render it inoperative (unless the void under the element reaches the trigger temp- unlikely..) While keeping the boil dry protection offered by any thermal fuses employed. our Pal Aamicle is s...