Alright, the natural gas fired, RIMS Sabco Brew Magic converstion to e-HERMS is complete. I'm expecting to receive an order or ingredients for my first batch and I'd like to see how bad I can screw this up on Saturday morning. Never done all grain, only a few partial mash brews, and never watched anyone else brew an all grain batch.
I boiled water in the BK the other night, pumped liquid around the through all the kettles and coil. Still working on getting the pumps to positively prime each time, especially from the low-sitting BK.
So...about this all grain thing...I've read some threads, watched some YouTube, read some things in a few books.
It has to be more complicated than this:
Bring up my HLT water for the HERMS coil to a degree or two above my desired mash temp, heat sparge water in the BK and then pump it into the mash tun. Probably push it through the coil a bit to make up for the lost heat in the MLT.
Dump/stir grain into the mash water. Pump at a sloooooow rate through the HERMS coil for an hour (or longer depending on the recipe). At the end of the mash time, raise the temp to 165 or 170 and run the wort into the kettle. Pump water from the HLT into the MLT to batch sparge until I hit my preboil volume.
Boil until I hit desired post boil volume adding hops along the way.
Chill, aerate, pitch.
Is it really that simple?
I boiled water in the BK the other night, pumped liquid around the through all the kettles and coil. Still working on getting the pumps to positively prime each time, especially from the low-sitting BK.
So...about this all grain thing...I've read some threads, watched some YouTube, read some things in a few books.
It has to be more complicated than this:
Bring up my HLT water for the HERMS coil to a degree or two above my desired mash temp, heat sparge water in the BK and then pump it into the mash tun. Probably push it through the coil a bit to make up for the lost heat in the MLT.
Dump/stir grain into the mash water. Pump at a sloooooow rate through the HERMS coil for an hour (or longer depending on the recipe). At the end of the mash time, raise the temp to 165 or 170 and run the wort into the kettle. Pump water from the HLT into the MLT to batch sparge until I hit my preboil volume.
Boil until I hit desired post boil volume adding hops along the way.
Chill, aerate, pitch.
Is it really that simple?