Recent content by Millatime417

use a blowoff, i made that same kit in a 6.5 gallon ale pail and had krausen in the airlock the next day.

Harpoon (and probably many other big boys) uses the heated water from the heat exchanger to start their next brew. Obviously this is on a much larger scale but doing this you save the water and using less energy to heat the water in the mash tun. Probably not practical for the homebrewer but...