G & F 1684L Dupont Nomex & Kevlar Heat Resistant Gloves, Oven Gloves, BBQ Gloves, Large, 1 Pair
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1005 dupont nomex
Made in the USA and Imported
Dupont Nomex is used in fire fighter, Aerospace, military such as body armor, yet can be light-weight, comfy and thermally safer. It helps boost the total toughness and strength. And dupont nomex fiber is naturally flame resistant, hard and pliable.
High exrreme heat would not cause gloves to melt
Unique Silicone coating due to the silicon texturing of the five fingers both side. Effortless to take off Baking gloves or to put on swiftly just as Oven Mitts.
Size large fits most hands
4 inches W * 10.5 inches L. Gloves meant for bigger fiting for easy slip on and off.
I use a similar type of glove (Ove Glove) when I’m making yeast starters in an Erlenmeyer Flask. It’s really handy (pun intended) to swirl around the flask or to quickly remove to keep the flask from boiling over.
These type of gloves are also handy on brew day for handling warm, (but not wet) ball valves and such.
These are not waterproof. Safety Note: Always use caution when handling hot items or ingredients and always read and follow manufacturer directions.
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Break-resistant, crystal-clear material is long-lasting
Easy-to-read measurements in high-contrast blue or red
For use with temperatures ranging from -40-degrees F to 212-degrees F
Certified to NSF
Measures liquid or dry ingredients to help save food costs
The Rubbermaid Commercial Bouncer 4-Quart Measuring Cup is constructed of break-resistant and durable crystal-clear material. Rubbermaid measuring cups feature large, easy to read measurements in high-contrast red or blue. Safe for use with temperatures ranging from -40-degree F and 212-degree F. NSF-certified and commercial dishwasher safe.
Clear, durable polycarbonate construction. Break resistant. Volume markers in both english and metric. Temp range of -40 to +212 degrees F/-40 to 100 degrees C for use with hot or cold contents.
I use this pitcher on brew day and for general around-the-brewery measuring. It’s food safe 212 deg F. I use it for recirculating, topping up water, collecting wort from my mash tun, holding utensils on brew day and more. This small upgrade has made a big difference for me on brew day. This is a great pitcher. I’ve owned and used it since May of 2013. Check out my Review for more info.
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Garden Hose Quick Connector Value Pack. Includes 2 female quick connects and 2 male quick connects.
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PLG Brand Without flow stopper,KEEP water flowing.Made from High Quality Aluminum, Meet EU Aluminum Quality Standards,Very LOW Lead Content(Ava<0.1791%).
No leaks,quick connect hose fittings,Durable metal construction,Comfortable rubber grips.Includes 2 female quick connects and 2 male quick connects,Quickly Attached.
3/4 in.*3/4 in. NH Thread,Excellent value and quality, It’s perfect for garden hoses and power washer, RV, boat or anywhere there’s a standard 3/4″ garden hose connection,work with your camper, sprayers,nozzle, tree soaker etc.★Easy to Connect and Disconnect★.
The garden hose connectors help you quick connect & disconnect the hose in the cold weather,No need unscrew and screw on the hose.
NOTICE:Used for garden watering tools only,Used with a pressure under 60 psi.
Quick disconnects make connecting and disconnecting things on brew day easier. I have QDs (a different brand) on every hose connection I use on brew day, including sprayers and my wort chiller.
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12″ by 12″ interlocking bar mat by San Jamar. These interlocking mats are versatile. Multiple mats can be joined for larger areas and they are flexible and easy to cut to shape. Allows for airflow under glassware.
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Raised design provides a sanitary surface for your glassware, and allows for better air circulation and faster drying
Durable, non-slip material prevents marring and breaking of glassware
Interlocking design allows you to connect multiple mats, and the lightweight material can be easily cut to fit into any shape or size needed for your shelves, bar or sink
Always lays flat for a neat, clean appearance
Dishwasher safe and NSF approved
I purchased a number of these in 2015 and have since found them very handy. I use them for drying brew day gear and glassware and also underneath my fermenter in my fermentation deep freeze to improve airflow and keep the fermenter out of any condensation that might show up). I also use this in bottom of my kegerator. More info on that here – Upgrade Your Kegerator – 6 Improvements
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Stainless steel construction
Measures 24″ in length
Ideal for mixing eggs, sauces and batter
Heavy gauge wire loops
Dishwasher safe
This looks similar to my 24″ Stainless Whisk. That whisk is an easy upgrade that I generally recommend for all but small batch only brewers. Check out my Hands on Review of that great tool.
Use this on brew day in your mash tun and brew kettle. In the mash tun… a whisk like this makes quick work of breaking up up doughballs. In the brew kettle… Use to incorporate extract, stir the brew kettle or start a kettle whirlpool.
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Reinforced rims reduce bending, bowing and breaking protecting your valuable tableware investment
Comfort curve handles for a steady, comfortable grip
Available contour lids for easy box-on-box stacking (sold separately)
Bus tables more efficiently with the Carlisle N4401003 bus/utility box. The reinforced rims minimize bending, bowing and breaking protecting your tableware reducing labor costs by allowing more to be safely carried in one trip. The molded in comfort curve handles ensure a comfortable grip for secure transporting. Integrated stacking lugs allow for efficient, Jam-Free storage when not in use. Unique contour lid design (sold separately) allows for easy box-on-box stacking. This box is compatible with the Carlisle N44012 universal bus box lid. The smooth interior with rounded corners prevents trapped food and debris from accumulating making for easy cleaning. The N4401003 measures 20 x 15 x 5 inches (L x W x H). it is made in the USA and recyclable.
I use two similar bus tubs [Note: Mine are a different model from a different manufacturer and have different specs] on brew day and I find them invaluable. I keep one below my March Pump setup. It catches drips and also offers a place to store wet items such as stirring spoons, mash paddles, my mash stirring whisk and my equally invaluable 1 gallon pitchers. I reserve the other tub for clean and dry items. Having two of these helps me keep dry/clean and wet/dirty items separate and means less lugging stuff around on brew day.
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This review is by Homebrew Finds Contributor Brad Probert. Brad is an engineer, expert homebrewer and experienced reviewer. Grab a link to Brad’s website at the end of this review.
Brewfather App
Depending on your brewing personality, you might take notes on paper, do no recipe calculations at all, or use brewing software. I started using BeerSmith when I moved to all-grain brewing, since there were more variables to control when making a recipe and more process steps to keep track of. I’ve been using BeerSmith 2 for the past 5 years, and that’s established my baseline expectations of brewing software. That’s the perspective used when I evaluated the Brewfather software.
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Brewfather offers a free full feature trial. After the trial period, you’ll still have access via a limited, non-expiring account
What I’ve found with BeerSmith is that it pretty much has everything I need, but some features are a bit more cumbersome to use than I would like. Although there are limitations or some awkward features, it works and I know how to use it. And more importantly, my entire recipe history of all-grain exists within it. So when someone told me about Brewfather and suggested I check it out, I was apprehensive. I felt like I had so much time invested in BeerSmith, and I didn’t want to have to go through re-learning everything again in a new software. But I tried it anyway.
The Basics
Brewfather isn’t a software that you load on your computer, the software exists on Brewfather’s servers. So there’s nothing to install or configure. You access it through a web browser interface, but it’s much fancier than that. You have the exact same interface and full toolset whether you’re running it on a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone. Once you’ve created an account, your login credentials work in all of those environments to seamlessly give you access. And since it’s running off a server, all of those devices have access to the same information at the same time. If you change a recipe on your phone, it automatically shows up on your laptop. If you’re running a brew timer on your laptop and then close that down, you open it on your smartphone without missing a beat. And in these settings, it also allows you to work offline and then sync your data when you get back online.
Brew Timer in Action
Because it’s a server-based software, it stays funded by users paying a licensing fee. You can have full access to the calculators for free, but the free membership only lets you store 10 recipes, and doesn’t allow certain features. To go beyond that, you have to pay for the Premium Membership, which is $2/month, or $20/year if you pay for the full year at once.
Recipe generation is straightforward, with a large database of grains, hops, and yeast to pick from to build your recipe up. As you add ingredients, a recipe graphic shows how your recipe measures up against the beer style guidelines that you’ve picked. As you add your grains, you can either add the amount and see the resulting % of mash and OG, or alternatively, you go into your grain list and select the percentage of the malt bill you want each grain to make up and it automatically calculates the weight. Or even better, you select the OG you want, and it will ratio up your grains to meet that OG and keep the percentages the same. Hop additions have similar tools where you can select the IBU and it will ratio your hop weights to hit your target IBU. When you select your yeast, there’s a pop-up calculator where it will calculate the particulars for a yeast starter where you can customize things like pitch rate and yeast age easily. A water calculator is integrated into the recipe builder for easy adjustment of target water profile and auto-calculated mineral additions to hit your target.
Water Adjustment Tool
After you’ve built your recipe, brew day features are built in. With the brew timer directly fed from your recipe, it maps out your brew day with step-by-step instructions. It starts by telling you the strike water volume and temperature and prompting you to get that going. When you click to tell it you’ve reached strike temperature, it spits out the list of brewing salt additions and grains. You confirm that you’ve mashed in, and the timer starts for the mash time you had set up in your recipe. An alarm with pop-up window tells you when the mash step is over, and tells you the next target temperature. When your mash steps are complete, it guides you through sparging and tells you how much wort to collect for the pre-boil volume. Stepping into the boil phase, it prompts you for boil additions at the appropriate time, and even post-boil whirlpool additions. And as I mentioned before, this is all synchronized on whatever device you’re looking at (even if simultaneously open on a laptop in one room and your smartphone in another).
To list all of the features and functions within the software would be exhausting and would just turn into a replicate of the owner’s manual. You can import and export recipes, so if your BeerSmith veteran like me, you can pull over your favorite recipes. You can build equipment profiles and customize them for fill volumes, lost volumes, etc. The equipment profile has a tool to precisely characterize the thermal properties of your brew rig for infusion mash additions with a simple experiment. You can customize water profiles, ingredient profiles, beer styles- pretty much everything.
Hands on Review
First and foremost- bug free. I discovered no glitches, no weird “just click on it twice, even though you shouldn’t have to” bugs, and the transitions from laptop to phone and back were likewise flawless. I loved the ability to start my recipe at home on my laptop before going to work, finishing it up on my work computer, and even tweaking it while at the homebrew shop when I found they didn’t have the particular hop I was planning to use. I didn’t have to take a note somewhere and go back to update the master copy, I had access to the master copy anywhere I went. I was even impressed that during my brew session, when I realized I hadn’t set up the mash profile to what I wanted, I was able to go in, edit it, and jump back out, all without disrupting the brew timer, and instantly incorporating that tweak to the active session.
Brew Session Data Entry and Realtime Statistics
Recipe creation was great. Not that I ever found it that hard in BeerSmith, but Brewfather made it somehow easier, and felt more flexible. But by far, my favorite feature was the “Batch” concept. You build your Recipe, and that becomes your “master copy”. When you’re ready to brew, you click on a button within your Recipe to start a Batch, which copies your recipe as the starting point. But if you want to make a 5 gallon batch this time instead of a 2.5 gallon batch, you change it in the settings for that Batch, and the recipe master remains untouched. If you are brewing your favorite recipe, but in a new piece of brewing equipment, you handle that in the Batch. If the AA% of the hops you’re using are slightly different than your recipe, you change that in the Batch and let the software adjust to maintain your IBU. If you want to experiment with a different yeast this time, you do that in your Batch. All of these brew session variations off your master recipe are stored together as a subset of your recipe. You don’t have multiple copies of a recipe strewn about with minor variations. This is perfect for those of us that try to perfect a certain recipe, or want to keep detailed notes of all the minor set-up variations from batch to batch.
The other thing that grabbed my attention when I heard about Brewfather was the integration it has with Tilt (or other various brewing devices). Every batch I brew, I track fermentation progress with a Tilt Bluetooth hydrometer. With Brewfather, it gives me an http:// address to type into my Tilt App settings and then it sends all of its gravity & temperature logging data to my Brewfather account. In my Batch tracking, once brew day is done, I can move it into the fermentation stage and then tell it which Tilt is tracking fermentation. Then within that Batch record, you can pull up the exact fermentation profile. Without Brewfather, I map my Tilt to write data to Google Sheets, then print out a hard copy later and tape it into my brewing journal. Having the complete history in one online dataset, seems like a great record-keeping process. And being able to record gravity readings, pH readings, volume readings, and any other notes in one Batch record in the midst of my brew session, pretty much makes my brewing notebook obsolete (in theory).
Tilt Data Plot on Smartphone with Data Smoothing On
Conclusions
Overall, the layout is well thought-out, with all the various calculators and brewing tools integrated in at logical points rather than having to go search for functions. The operation was flawless for me, which of course is super-important since you don’t want a brew day timer to freeze up on you in mid-batch, or risk losing a great recipe that turned out great. The ability to track Batches off of one Recipe is a feature I really loved, as well as having full access with whatever computer/smartphone I wanted to use. And lastly, being a big Tilt user, it’s great to be able to have this functionality integrated with all my brew records rather than a separate set of data/graphs. So even though I hate the concept of having to pay for software on an on-going basis, with all of this functionality stemming from its server-based operation, I’m on board.
Brass Hose Fittings – Quick Disconnect Set via MoreBeer
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Quick Disconnects are a favorite among homebrewers for their ability to quickly move from one configuration to another.
With the Brass Quick Disconnect Set you can easily connect and disconnect your water line to various equipment. These QD’s must be placed in a configuration where water is always exiting the female portion of the QD and entering the male portion of the QD. For example the Female threads x Female QD portion is placed on the end of the hose while the Male QD portion is connected to your equipment.
This set includes one Male GHT (Garden Hose Thread) x Male QD and one Female GHT x Female QD.
We sell several adapter pieces that allow you convert GHT to male or female 1/2 inch pipe thread or 1/2 inch hose barb, making it a snap mount these QDs on just about any piece in your brewery.
Please Note: This product will NOT work with our Stainless Steel or Plastic Quick Disconnects.
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25′ Premium Drinking Water Hose by Camco. 20% Thicker than standard drinking water hoses. Drinking water safe, lead free, BPA free. Leaves no strong plastic taste. Durable, machined fittings. UV stabilized. Made with NSF certified hose.
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Multi-Purposed Hose: Great for camping, RVing, gardening, washing your vehicle, watering your livestock and more. Drinking Water Safe: Hose is lead-free, BPA-free, phthalate-free and leaves no strong plastic taste in your drinking water
Thicker Than Standard Drinking Water Hoses: Heavy-duty hose is 20 percent thicker than standard drinking water hoses, making it more resistant to leaks and pinholes. Extra Durable: Machined fittings for maximum corrosion resistance and strain-relief ends for added durability
Extended Life: UV stabilized for longer life and made with NSF certified hose
Dimensions: Inner Dimension – 5/8″ for high flow; Length: 25-feet
Compliant with all Low Lead Laws: Compliant with all federal and state level low lead laws. CSA Low Lead Content Certified to NSF/ANSI 372
I have the 50′ version and it’s a great brew day hose.
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Brew Timer in Action
Water Adjustment Tool
Brew Session Data Entry and Realtime Statistics
Adding Brewing Notes on Brew Day- Typos Optional
Tilt Data Logging Linked to Batch Record – 
Tilt Data Plot on Smartphone with Data Smoothing On
Recipe Builder with Visual Beer Stats vs Style Guidelines
Yeast Starter Calculator Pop-up
