re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread

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run the hot wort into it.

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How about that. I'm sure that'll give you some interesting flavors.

I know with my barrel, cleaning it with hot water certainly brought out a lot of aroma from the barrel.

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I was at Yazoo one day and noticed a clipboard hanging from a tank with their Dos Perros recipe on it. I asked if I could take a picture of it and the tour guide offered to print me out a copy of the sheet. Good Guy Yazoo.

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I Facebook messaged Jester King when i was putting together my oatmeal stout. I asked if they minded sharing some insight on their recipe for Black Metal Stout, and the guy gave me his brew sheet for it. I think i emailed it to a few of you on here. I did not use it for my stout, but it is on the list to clone this year.

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Also picked up a fermwrap to help with the saison. Brewing Saturday.

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Mine works awesome... I'm using it with a Ranco to keep the temp at 73 in my shed right now.

After this brew is done I may see how high it can get the temp and try using it to hold a lacto dosed berliner in the low 100s.

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The guy at la homebrew was telling me that someone placed an order for one and ended up getting one somewhere else. So he had this one in stock that i bought. Was that you?

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Not me, Keith custom ordered the FermWrap for me. When he did, he purchased an additional one for the shop.

Not sure who bailed on the other wrap.

I unplugged my freezer from the ranco, changed it to heat mode, and then plugged the fermwrap into the ranco. I wrapped a beach towel around the carboy and fermwrap to help keep it insulated so the ranco doesn't cycle as much over night.

I have a carboy hood with a stainless thermowell and I'm using that to measure the beer's temperature and turn the wrap on and off. Insulating the probe with some bubble wrap and taping it to the carboy would probably do the same thing.

The wrap is slightly warm to the touch, but not enough where I would be worry about temps skyrocketing inside the freezer.

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I unplugged my freezer from the ranco, changed it to heat mode, and then plugged the fermwrap into the ranco.

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Question on this. I have the johnson temperature controller A419



I'm reading through how to change the controller from cooling to heating and i'm not understanding the verbage.

LINK

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Positioning the Jumpers
The P5 jumper position determines if the touchpad is
locked or unlocked.
The P4 jumper pin block has two pairs of jumper pins.
The top pair of pins (JUMP1) determines if the control
is set for Heating or Cooling mode. The bottom pair of
pins, (JUMP2) establishes whether Setpoint is at cut-in
or at cutout. See Table 2 and Figure 5.

To position a jumper in the Installed position, place
the jumper on both pins, which closes the circuit
between the pins. To position a jumper in the
Removed position, place the jumper on one pin only.
See Figure 4.

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It says to either switch the controller to heating mode cut in at setpoint or heating mode cut out at setpoint.

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Setpoint (SP) establishes the temperature value at
which the equipment is switched on or off, depending
on the user selected mode of operation. Setpoint
range is -30 to 212°F or -34 to 100°C (in 1-degree
increments).
If Setpoint mode is set to cut-in, setpoint is the
temperature value at which the control closes the
Normally Open (N.O.) contacts. If Setpoint mode is set
to cutout, setpoint is the temperature at which the N.O.
contacts open.

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So i'm not sure if i need to have my setpoint to cut in or cut out. Suggestions?

If i don't want my wort to get above 75, then i need to have the setpoint cut out, right?

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LSUGrad00

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Cool, thanks!

for how long?