Yesterday I completed the inaugural brew on my new HERMS. The brew went great; no-cill, no-sparge American Amber @ 70% eff. I really cannot complain about that. I did notice a few things that fellow HERMS users could help me out with:
1.) I noticed that the spent grains were piled up against 1 side of the keggle. I was unaware that nozzle/difuzer design was an issue with HERMS as I just had the outlet hose suspended in the mash. Can this lower efficiency or does the recirculating mash mix all of that up?
2.) My 2000w electric element mounted in a cooler is starting to rust after a test run and one brew session. Is this typical? I was thinking of using the HEX water to sparge with but I cannot if it has rust in it. Is this normal?
Thanks everybody!
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I never had the grain pile up on one side of the MLT, does your recirc come out with a lot of force? Is it not gently flowing into the pool of water above the mash?
As for the rust, that is typical. This is why water heaters have annodes.
I never had the grain pile up on one side of the MLT, does your recirc come out with a lot of force? Is it not gently flowing into the pool of water above the mash?
As for the rust, that is typical. This is why water heaters have annodes.
I had my valve wide open, I was in awe of the March's power..... Should I not have done that?
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I had my valve wide open, I was in awe of the March's power..... Should I not have done that?
If it isnt hurting your eff. it really doesnt matter. Glad you like the March, I have a couple LGs now and will see how they work next week on a wet run.
If it isnt hurting your eff. it really doesnt matter. Glad you like the March, I have a couple LGs now and will see how they work next week on a wet run.
March worked well. I mounted it low (thanks for sharing your early priming problems) and had no problems priming at all. It was really nice to not have to stand over a cooler and watch the thermometer to see if I needed to add hot or cold water!!!! HERMS is awesome!
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March worked well. I mounted it low (thanks for sharing your early priming problems) and had no problems priming at all. It was really nice to not have to stand over a cooler and watch the thermometer to see if I needed to add hot or cold water!!!! HERMS is awesome!
I just looked at you gallery to see what you are up to. You dog!!!!!! They are beautiful!!!!!! There you go putting ideas in my head again..... expensive ideas......
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"Real men drink their freakin' yeast starters...."
I just looked at you gallery to see what you are up to. You dog!!!!!! They are beautiful!!!!!! There you go putting ideas in my head again..... expensive ideas......
It is a beast of a build... it will be my greatest creation yet. Once rhe brew rigs wireless bridge arrives, it will be finished... Mounted pumps today etc...
If you are just running the hose into the top of the grainbed, you are probably creating some channeling. You will make out a lot better using a diffuser
this work very well. you can lay it on top of the level grainbed
You don't need to run the pump balls out during recirculation and it's actually not a good idea. You can really compact the grainbed into a solid block of "concrete" doing that.
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