Hello Again Everyone,
So a few weeks back I had a brew day and unfortunately I could not reach boil temperature. This resulted in me running back and forth from my Brewie (in the basement) to the stove upstairs with pots full of wort in an attempt to keep the volume low enough to boil. It was a bit of a fiasco but I’m somewhat to blame. I should have read this forum in its entirety because then I would see all of the heating element posts and upgrading the connectors and adding in an additional fan.
I’m planning on diving back into this and opening up the Brewie to look at the heating elements. I’m suspecting to see some scary stuff upon opening it up.
Does anyone have any update after several brew days of the connector and fan mods? I’m a little nervous to do this myself as I don’t have some of the tools that other members have that make for a very solid and secure connection.
The information is somewhat scattered throughout this post too so if anyone has a BOM of what they used, I would be forever in your debt and would be willing to Venmo you some beer brewing money. If no one has that information available, I’ll spend some time gathering everything I can find and providing a BOM and basic work instructions. Thanks everyone!
What is BOM?
I put together a parts list and general cost back around October 2019 and posted it here.
Are you the B20 or B+?
I did the wires and skipped the fan mod. I do add an external fan (although that is not nearly as good!)
I have since done about a half dozen batches and it always gets to a rolling boil at 214 or so, and i max out the water too.
I am so happy with it! I will edit this with my post number when i find it.