Any exciting purchases?

Excitement level is under control, but Amazon had a BF special on Inkbird temp controllers that was too good to pass up. My old Rancos are long in the tooth, so the deal was good, even as a standby. The real excitement starts when the old units melt-down and the new-fangled ones are pressed into service. If anyone's interested, looks like they'll stay 20% off for CM.

Don't leave us dangling . . . what'd you get?

 

It’s a surprise until he gets them.

 

I upgraded to an Anvil Foundry 10.5 gallon system. I currently use the 6.5 gallon system and it’s tuff to get more than 9# of grain in it. I’ve had about 13# but my mash conversion was not good. Also bonus is I had join a stock app called Robinhood and received a free stock from Microsoft $200 valve. I traded up until I had enough for the Anvil. So it was essentially free. Plan to use the 6.5 as a HLT and move on from the propane. Cheers guys

 

Yakima Valley Hops had Cascade and Centennial for $5 a pound for Black Friday. Got one Cascade and two Centennial lol

 

I bought a BrewJacket Immersion temperature controller on black friday. AIH offered them for $150. The Peltier technology (to me) was always sketchy and doesn't work as well as advertised. But for small temperature deltas I think it can be useful. I just set it up for a test run to see how low I can get it to go for lagers. I think it could be handy when I don't have room in one of my coolers for a fermenter.

 

Please report back with your results.

I would imagine that if you had a cool area of your house (e.g., unheated basement) this would be helpful here.

Cheers!

 

I got 2 more sacks of marris otter. Always exciting!!!

 

Just received my BeerMKR, yea I purchased it a couple years ago but I didn't give up. Currently doing their Redwood ipa in it.

 

Craigslist find: 15-gallon kettle by Spike Brewing. Been hunting a ‘deal I couldn’t refuse’ for almost a year.
Now I just need to figure out the best way to clean it since it doesn't fit in my sink.

 

Bathtub.

 

How dirty is it??? Remember ripper for tough jobs there's always the pressure washer, hahahhahahahahhahaa

 

First thought was, "Anybody can do it that way!"

Not very dirty at all. The guys ad said "next best thing to new" and he was right. Glad for that because a pressure washer would blow it down the mountain (plus my outside water is shut off for the winter). Might run a hose from the sink to outside, using the sink-to-garden hose adapter that has heretofore been reserved for the immersion chiller.

.....and I began searching for hand-held shower attachments.

 

How is it? Kinda a crazy idea. Good if you like playing around with recipes but none of the physical labor.

 

So far so good, no issues yet that some of the beta testers were experiencing. Yea, plan is to develop recipes and play with ingredients, still brewing with my 2.5 gal setup.

 

I probably have the ideal cleaning setup for big stuff. My wife owns a boarding kennel and the grooming room has a bathtub with a restaurant style sprayer attached to the faucet for washing the dogs. I wash everything there in the winter, still use the hose outside when it's warm. Lugging stuff around is not fun but better than cleaning in crappy conditions.

 

I got a BeerMKR (Kickstarter backer with a two-year wait here, also); unfortunately it went tits up on my first run - faulty temp sensor. They're sending me a new one; fingers crossed it works out.

 

I just bought a low, wide 6 gallon stainless hotel pot for sparging. Sparging has been the Achilles heel of my process since the beginning, and I think I have rigged up a system that should greatly improve my efficiency.