See Mako, even your yeast starter is excited!
Anyone come up with a Beersmith profile for the 50l?
Yambor44 said:That's great to hear!
I wonder what the deal is with these bent lids? May be the way they pack them with those straps. My straps were still in tact but my lid was bent also. I had it replaced instead of trying to work it out. I know you just needed the pump so the lid isn't a problem. Just think that whether you get a 20 or 50 you have spent a lot of your hard earned cash. Get it right. There should be no problem ( as Thorsten showed here as well as with mine) in getting replacement units/parts while you use yours. Then it can be shipped back once you get the replacement via their shipping label
Can't wait to hear how your brew goes.
forcabrew said:hows everyone sparging with this unit?
So here is my recipe for my first BM brew.
English Bitter
7 lbs Pale Malt
.5 lbs Crystal 60
.25 lbs Flaked Oats
.5 lbs Victory
.50 ozs. EKG @ 60
.50 ozs. Fuggles @ 15
.50 ozs. EKG @ 10
.50 ozs. Fuggles @ 1
OG: 1.045
IBU's: 16.83
This is the first time I'm using my brewing software with the BM, hopefully I have entered the profile numbers correctly. My software tells me to mash with 23 liters water. Sparge with 8.85 liters of water. This will give me a boil size of 26.54 liters in kettle, ending up with 20.82 liters in the fermenter. Taking into account a 90 min boil and trub loss. Does this seem correct?
That seems like a little too much water to me, but don't have my conversion chart handy. Today I mashed with 6 gallons and sparged with 1.5 gallons and got right around 5.25 gallons in the fermentor after a 90 min boil. You're about a gallon more than me if my math is right. Are you using a dip tube or tipping your unit to get past the standard spigot level?
Thanks mako, I'll adjust my sparge to 1.5g in my software. I will tip the unit until I fashion a dip tube. What method of draining are you using?
I picked up a bit of trub today and given that and another look at my fermenter, I'd go 1.75g as a starting point. (went and looked after I posted earlier) I auto syphoned today as I'm having dip tube issues - so still figuring that out myself.
You brewing tomorrow and is that going in your cask setup? Sounds tasty!
Cool Mako I'll try 1.75g on sparge. Yes I'm killing two birds with one stone, brewing on the new system and supplying the beer engine!
Mako did you check the temperature while chilling with anything other than the built-in probe? I've found it to be way off while chilling (10-15C or more).
I remember reading about this somewhere but can't recall which thread. From what I can tell as the wort chills hop debris and break material settle in around the probe and insulate it throwing off the reading. I'm going to solve the problem by drilling a small ~1/8" hole in the lid and use a long stem digital.
Yambor we may be wrong about these stainless chillers.
-Chris
Hey Mako, what percent are your citra and magnum hops?
Forgot to post that in the original recipe and will update it.
Magnum - 13.5AA
Citra - 13.4AA
48 IBU's by recipe
Thanks! Was putting this together and came up with IPA IBU's.
makomachine said:It's technically 3 IBU's beyond the upper limits of the APA style, but I'm a fan of the hop and I'm not a stickler for guidelines! I also tend to always end up a bit short on my utilization and have always seemed to need to bump up my IBU's ~10% or so. I use bottled spring water and it's the next step in my process to nail down as I haven't done any water profiling or adjustments to date. Guessing that has something to do with it as I don't use any hop sacks in my process.
makomachine said:rlhvegas - How did your brew day go today? I'm sipping on my Oktoberfest and thinking about real ale, and where I could fit a beer engine into my home pub plans - thanks to you!
If you want I can forward you info and contact for the beer engine.
makomachine said:Definitely forward it to me when you get a chance. No rush as I have to wait until we build our next home before I go there, but will be great to have it for some pre-planning. Let us know your thoughts when you wrap up today!
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