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  1. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    And to close out the brew day - I kegged over the weekend. I use a simple set up to accomplish closed transfers between fermentor and kegs. I can’t suggest closed transfers strongly enough. Absolute game changer. First, I purge and pressurize a clean and sanitized keg with CO2. I hook up my...
  2. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    Back to the comparison to the BrewEasy/K-RIMS setup, one gripe I’ve read is that you can end up with a lot of particulate in your boil kettle during the recirculating process. I have not used such a system, but I do know the wort that is cycled through my MLT is a bit chunky in the beginning...
  3. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    I did the Jamil-o-chiller (immersion+recirc) for a pretty long time. I stopped when I began to value ease over speed. After boil, I do a manual whirlpool, cover the kettle, come back after 10 minutes, and gently place the chiller into the hot wort. I then begin chilling. I purposely do not...
  4. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    That is the exact chiller I own. Just swapped the garden hose fittings to work with my QD’s.
  5. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    Yes, very familiar with the breweasy. It’s an interesting set up. High Gravity also did a video a couple years back of a large volume side by side 2 pump breweasy style system, which is kind of interesting too. It does give the opportunity to do larger grain bills, but the days of big beers may...
  6. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    Yes, definitely a bit of a step mash thing - lol. I said it early, but I do find this setup to take lots of nice things about 3 vessel sparge systems, and lots of nice things about BIAB, and it kind of puts them together. This is probably obvious, but there are really two populations that may...
  7. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    I’ve always built recipes assuming 70% mash efficiency. I’ve been coming in around 72-75% with my system. In a perfect world, I complete a 60 minute rest without dosing any heat to the mash tun during the initial rest (145-148F). Brewing in my garage at 19F on Monday was not a perfect world. I...
  8. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    Thanks for showing off your system. Yes, very similar process. It seems the biggest process variables we have are that I do the full volume mash and directly heat the mash tun to step temperature, while you do a more traditional mash, and boil the final addition separately to bring you up to a...
  9. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    Thanks to everyone who read and commented. I took the week off and brewed two beers yesterday morning. Brew day started at 6 am, and the second beer was in the fermentor by noon. I took some pictures so you could see the process in action. Here is a series of pictures for batch 1, starting...
  10. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    Lol - thanks. I was alive when you brewed your first beer. I turned 39 this year. Started all grain brewing around 23/24. I’m not sure where those 15 years went.
  11. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    When I was using a 3 vessel fly sparge, I would put 5 gallons of water in my mash + 10-12 lbs of grain. The tun was maybe 75% full. Sometimes I would start a recirc after 30 minutes, other times I’d start after 60. The biggest temp battles I had would be from the days with recirculating after...
  12. J

    Two Vessel No Sparge has become my favorite setup. Check it out!

    It’s been a while since I made a long post on HBT… I have been brewing all grain for about 15 years. This means 2 things - one, I am old and two, I built my brewery to be a three vessel, 2 pump, fly sparge system. I became re-engaged with the brewing community over the past couple years, and...
  13. J

    Closed transfer stuck with a gallon left in FV

    Timely thread. I had questions about a closed transfer a few weeks back, got some good advice, and stopped in by Bobby’s shop yesterday to pick up the last fittings I needed. I ran two water tests tonight, and it was an awesome success. I am using a Speidel that is elevated enough to gravity...
  14. J

    Process Check - Closed transfer w/ Speidel Fermentors

    Thank you for all of the great replies. You made me think about taking this set-up one step further. Quick aside - My new fittings arrived, and they are fantastic. NorCal was the vendor. @BongoYodeler really gave me something to think about... given all that I proposed above, it seems a gas x...
  15. J

    Process Check - Closed transfer w/ Speidel Fermentors

    Asking for a sanity check here... if I am right, it could evolve into a pretty good process. Please think about my post and let me know your thoughts. I have been fermenting 5 gallon batches with 30L Speidel’s for past few years, and kegging all of my beers. The fermentors are elevated above...
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