G-E-R-M-A-N
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Ok I am a brew-noob and just got done with my first beer yesterday.
I have Ed-worts old 10gal polarware pot as my kettle. I am running thermo tubing off of the kettle valve to a march food pump. From there I am going into my shirron plate chiller and then I have the output hose coming out wherever I put it.
On the water side of my chiller I have a maxi jet 1200 aquarium pump(in a cooler of course) on the input, and then the output comes back into the cooler.
Ok so after flame out I started up the system. I noticed the temp dropping but not really that fast ( I live in Houston, so water is somewhat warm). It took me a very long time to chill, even with using ice after it got down from 100f.
I was recirculating the wort back into the kettle and it was basically a closed loop system until i reached around 76F.
Ok so no big deal I figured that I would mess up in some way, with my first batch.
When filling up the carboy using the output of the chiller, I noticed the flow was really slow. About half of what it should have been. After cleaning up some I took the march pump apart and noticed trub and hop residue. (used pellet hops)
Is this normal? I have a false bottom for my kettle, but did not use it this time because I did partial mash. (It was to prevent schoorching, but wound up scoorching some of the extract anyways)
So can anybody help me improve this setup, and or help me correct what I am doing wrong. :cross:
I have Ed-worts old 10gal polarware pot as my kettle. I am running thermo tubing off of the kettle valve to a march food pump. From there I am going into my shirron plate chiller and then I have the output hose coming out wherever I put it.
On the water side of my chiller I have a maxi jet 1200 aquarium pump(in a cooler of course) on the input, and then the output comes back into the cooler.
Ok so after flame out I started up the system. I noticed the temp dropping but not really that fast ( I live in Houston, so water is somewhat warm). It took me a very long time to chill, even with using ice after it got down from 100f.
I was recirculating the wort back into the kettle and it was basically a closed loop system until i reached around 76F.
Ok so no big deal I figured that I would mess up in some way, with my first batch.
When filling up the carboy using the output of the chiller, I noticed the flow was really slow. About half of what it should have been. After cleaning up some I took the march pump apart and noticed trub and hop residue. (used pellet hops)
Is this normal? I have a false bottom for my kettle, but did not use it this time because I did partial mash. (It was to prevent schoorching, but wound up scoorching some of the extract anyways)
So can anybody help me improve this setup, and or help me correct what I am doing wrong. :cross: