Just buy a small keg and a carbonation lid from Kegland. This will give you continuous carbonated water. Ideally you would plumb it into a small fridge or kegerator to have cold water but not required.
They make small 2 gal swing top kegs because you don't really need 5 gal unless you are...
Let's be honest, it take 4 hours to brew from grain and most people have a hard time waiting for the microwave to stop.
Covid got a lot of people out of brewing including me. I was doing a foundation repair and then a kitchen renovation and didn't have time to sleep let alone brew. I also...
I bought the 4/3 wire on amazon in a 25ft section. It was probably the most expensive part of installing the 220v. I found the spa type sub panel that already had a 30amp and 20 amp GFCI breaker on Facebook for a good price and wired it myself. I have open joists in my basement and the wire had...
I just used my Digiboil 35L 220v for the first time and it was my best brew do in 7 years! I am moving from a propane burner but I have been doing all grain since the beginning. With my propane setup I had to drag everything out of the garage to brew and then drag it all back in. With my...
If you are going to turn on the element while mashing then you probably need to recirculate too or the temp in the mash bed will be hot in the middle around the element and much colder out at the sides of the pot where the heat is being lost.
That sleeping bad is not very thick. Might consider...
I am stumped by the heat loss too but here are a few ideas:
If your pot is aluminum it will lose much more heat than stainless and could account for the increase.
Heat rises so the top of the mash will usually be warmer than the bottom. If you are getting the same temp throughout then it might...
Do you use a strike water calculator to determine your strike temp? Is the mash temp at the desired temp when you start? How are you taking the temp before and after? Just want to eliminate assumptions.
So SG is taken at the start of Fermentation and FG at the end of Fermentation. So when you say your starting gravity was low I just want to make sure your recipe says 1.048 full boil gravity and not SG? If you are talking about SG then pre-boil gravity will be lower because it will boil off some...
Have you all grain brewed before using your eHERMS?
When you say "starting gravity" when did you take this measurement and how? Before or after the boil and did you use a hydrometer or something else?
What was your final batch volume supposed to be and did you hit that volume? Example: was this...