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I live in Australia and the tap water is warm in summer making cooling difficult. I also use a bucket if ice slurry, but instead of pumping this through my immersion chiller, I have a second immersion chiller sat in the bucket of ice slurry and run my tap water through this before is it...

Thanks for the replies. Certainly food for thought. Cheers Andy

I was hoping that I'd be able to loosen the spent malt and then flush it out of the opening with a bit of water. If I'm not able to do this, then what is the advantage of the bottom outlet? Would I be as well off with a false bottom and side outlet with dip tube? Thanks Andy

Hi, I'm planning on converting a keg to a bottom draining MLT. My reason for doing this is for the ease of cleaning and emptying. So my question is would it be better to use a false bottom or a manifold to drain the vessel? I gather that a false bottom is less prone to channelling, but with...

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I really like the look of this too. I currently use a Braumeister 20L, but this makes that look like hard work. I enjoy the recipe formulation and drinking, much more that I do the cleaning and this is supposedly self cleaning. I also like the 5 gallon batch size. Perfect for my current...

What mill gap size are you using for your crush? The general consensus amongst the BM owners on the Braumeisters forum is that a gap setting of 1.2mm (3/64") gives the best efficiencies.

It's certainly not underpriced in Australia. We can pay up to nine dollars a bottle here for imported beers.

Yes, I've done this. But not twice.....................Yet :)