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Standard Electric entry and panels in North America are 120/240v. Most houses have a 200A entrance and panel. 240v is used for everything that needs it, and 120v plugs and wiring are far less cumbersome than those used in most of Europe - not to mention the relative safety of 120v. It's...

My impeller had that "bare spot" on the impeller when I disassembled it for cleaning before I used the BM for the first time - which is why I assumed it was a balancing adjustment.

Thinking out loud here: Isn't the bare metal on one of the impeller vanes caused when they remove some to balance the impeller? Occasionally they might require no balancing - hence no "bare' metal.

Or: StarSan the chiller, then start the cooling water before lowering it into the boiled wort (making sure the waste is LOCATED SECURELY - or have a mop handy :D).

Wow! I'm amazed that you achieved even those times/temperatures with only 500w (2000/4) of heat.

Halving the voltage of resistance heat elements results in 1/4 the wattage. I don't think this is the issue here. :rolleyes:

Better late than never with the reply?? If you are getting a fountain, your mill gap is set too tight. The Braumeister is MORE EFFICIENT with a larger opening than you'd select for other types of brewing. That's counter-intuitive for most of us who used other AG methods before getting a BM...

Could it just be "static"? We get electrostatic discharge from many items when outside temperature and indoor humidity both drop low during our cold winters. Hopefully a breaker would trip if it were an electrical problem, but a GFCI would be a good addition for piece of mind...

35% - Ouch! :eek: I'm wondering whether 2 x 5kg mashes (+ DME if necessary) might be the best way to go. Here's my reasoning: 18kg x 35% = 6.3 10kg x 80% = 8 Or is my reasoning off?

@ dinnerstick Yeah, the cost of everything in that recipe was F’d up when I imported it. Maybe something I did? :o The last 25kg bag of MO I bought cost me $74 CAD (58.60 euro) = 2.30 euro per kg, my specialty malts are $3.99 CAD/kg, my hops cost from $5 to $10 per 100g. Maybe Bob & Doug...

Wow! That’s an impressive brew Dinnerstick. I liked the sound of that brew so I did a search and imported it from BeerSmith Recipe Cloud to take a closer look. 10.68kg grains, 357g hops, etc. for a total cost of $622.35 – WTF! – The UK Pale Ale Malt was priced at $52.91/kg everything else...

Revvy, you and I, no doubt, both employ similar good brewing and pouring practice. It is my friends' practice of poor pouring or drinking from the bottle that's the problem. I should have made that clear in my post. Maybe I should cultivate different friends who are more "trainable". ;)

I enjoy bottle-conditioned beers. That's all I ever did until all that bottle-washing became too much of a chore and I went the keg route some 12 years ago. Drinking a bottle-aged brew (yeast included) reminds me of my miss-spent youth back in the 60's when I made my first homebrews. I...

I think 87% is about as good as it gets for most of us. That number gets lower as the grain bill approaches maximum malt tube capacity. The default setting on my BC is 1mm (0.039"). I always condition my grain and I found that going tighter improved my efficiencies when using my 10usg...

Great first post! Tell us more 2B

I checked out the Sedex catchers but concluded that a Blichmann Beer Gun was a better deal because I have been kegging for years and have all the necessary C02 equipment. Seems to me that there is much less fuss and cost. I can't imagine the hassle of cleaning and sanitizing those for 48 or...

+1 I like that With a grain bill of up to 4.5 Kg and my BC set to 1.2mm (0.048") I typically get ~85% efficiency using BeerSmith. Counterintuitively, I found that a coarser crack improved my efficiency. I have recently started adding 50-100g of rice - hulls but I’m not sure how much this...

@Refly What was your efficiency for that last run? How/what software are you calculating your efficiencies? How/what size are you milling your grain? With a grain bill of around 4 Kg (<9lb) and my BC set to 1.2mm (0.048") I typically get ~85% efficiency (using BeerSmith).

You cannot avoid it when bottle conditioning, but clear beer will minimize it. The way to avoid it is by using a beer gun which transfers clear pressurized beer from a keg into the bottles.

These are what I used to make an extension cord: This on one end, this on the other end. I had a disused light switch alongside a regular Decora duplex kitchen outlet which I rewired using a white Decora version of this. Since the breaker is 20A and the wiring is 12/3 plus ground, this...