Took me the whole winter but here it is... My brewery is right here and has 2 brews under the belt. I am using the chill plate for both the HERMS and chiller. Works pretty good - never seen that idea used so I am taking credit for it :rockin:
Bragging a little bit
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looks pretty nice to me!!
good luck!
sweet setup but only 2 pictures? Why tease?
I always envy the nice clean silicone tubing. Mine's so old, it's dark brown now.
Sweet setup. I like the stand.
Sweet setup. I like the stand.
huntb
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How's bragging camp going?
Haha, only kidding. Sweet setup right there!
Haha, only kidding. Sweet setup right there!
I've been fighting efficiency issues on my setup since I started with it back in November. I stopped fly sparging and did my last two by batch sparging and had a big jump. I also raised the mash temp to 170 before I began sparging.
I like the chill plate HERMS idea though. I may try that as my pilot light is out of control and occoasionally scorches the mash in a spot.
I have one the HTL is the one on the left, the BK is in the middle the MT is to the right.
I know - didn't see anyone with that approach but it made a lot of sense to me
I think is working great too!
Either I don't measure the gravity right or there sis something going on
On the last batch I did this weekend I even did a multi step
Mash In 6.5 gal
20 mins @ 100F AR
20 mins @ 122F PR
30 mins @ 149F BR
30 mins @ 158F AR
Mash out 170F 2.5gal stirred well
Batch sparged 168F 6.5 galons for 10-15 minutes
I stirred well ocasionally but I move/recirculate the wort during this process so you'd think I'd get most of the grain.
Using the heat exchange I move from each temp plateau to the next which is pretty good.
Anyhow the thing is I ended up with 13.5 gal pre-boil and 11 after boil the reading was 1.055 should have been 1.062
I crushed the gains at the grain shop with 0.7mm setting - next time I'd run it twice thru the crusher and increase the mashing times.
if the temps are right (maybe should calibrate my PID althou the dial thermometer shows a similar temp as the PID) and volume are right what is that I do wrong ? hm...
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