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"Cooling a keg" - has to be a damn fine album name.

Not free. Someone else pays. Net loss in opportunity costs. Someone else makes money from you. Do not be a sheep for their shepard, we deserve better.. You could have had that money. Someone else pays. If the small print holds, then it probably means someone else pays. Someone else...

Just under a month lagering and I bottled it on Sunday. The bottles (PET) at cool room temp tightened up pretty quickly, so I took the half bottle left over and popped it into the fridge for a few days. I wasn't holding out many hopes and as this lager was my third attempt at all grain brewing...

A general tip. If you have a 8mm outer diameter fitting, use 8mm outer diameter piping and then heat the piping in boiling water and work it over the end. This creates a very tight connection that will last and not leak. PVC pipe will stretch quite a lot when it's above 70*C or so and...

And on a similar theme, here is an Irish version for Beer making. http://www.brewbot.io/

Nothing is free.

http://www.mnn.com/food/beverages/stori ... -into-wine http://themiraclemachine.net/ Sorry if it's been posted before. Let the slaughter begin.

Exactly.

Well, I ordered the PWM voltage controller alternative as per Cyclops post (linked above). £33 all in, including shipping. If you are ordering one, it's probably cheaper to buy a 1 way, 2 meter 13A extension cord instead of flex, plug and socket. Then again for my fridge controller I simply...

Sorry I only answered part of your question. Yes it will control the power to the element, but this is not what you would use to control the temp. For that you would use a thermostat. You would use this set up to control the amount of power supplied to the element when the wort is boiling. A...

Apparently the lead in tariffs are only if you use a certified installer and certified equipment, so if you go for buying up front you will almost certainly be scammed so the company still make their profit and take any grants, leaving you with making very little. Remember this government do...

At 17p per kwh (thats one tarif for here, and most likely NOT what the grid pay you), you have made £670/year with them, which sounds great, but would take, 18 years to pay back the 12,500. After 25 years there would be only a £4250 profit and that's not counting how much electricity you burn...

If it gets too high a simply thing is to put it into your bath and fill it with cold water.

As a non-layman but having never studied PIDs I looked it up. It seems that inherently a PID has a target. It has 1, 2 or 3 'current/past' parameters and it adjusts based on 1, 2 or all of those to meet the target. (I have spent some time working out similar control loops in software to...

Yep. Dropping the voltage drops the power of the element.

Sorry for posting on an old post, but... Shouldn't the display be connected after the regulator? At the moment it is looking like the voltage display will just be your mains input voltage. If you take a live from the out side of the regulator it should show you the voltage to the boiler...

Ah ha! Someone who gets what I mean :) I'll check this out later, but if PWM stands for Pulse Width Modulation, then it's exactly what I need. Thanks. I was thinking raspberry PI, but my relays are underrated at 10A with a 12.5A element. That linky is rated to 40A and over 3Kw. Just...

But... 100C is 100C at 99.9C is won't be boiling at 100C it will. A thermostatic approach won't work. I tested this with very fine movements of the thermostat, turn it down a "hair" until it clicks and the temp drops to about 98C before it clicks back on, that stops the boil fairly instantly...

My main problem is the huge amount of evaporation I get even with the lid half on and half off it was raining beer in my kitchen and I mean "literally" raining beer. There was a brown puddle on the ceiling and drips falling.

I agree with your science, but experimental evidence suggests (my instance of) wort does boil at 100C (+/-1C). I live at about 15 feet above sea level.