Recent content by MNBones

I find my conical helps me make better beer, but it’s mostly because it changed my process. 1.) Dumping sediment that made it from the boil kettle. I attach a sight glass to my dump valve and dump the sediment that settles out an hour after transferring from the boil kettle, then add my...

I'll bite.

Thanks guys I just wanted to be sure I haven’t been doing it wrong. I’ll have to look elsewhere for the mysterious efficiency loss in my new setup.

I hate to sound like a broken record but… my concern here is not the pre-boil volume. Does 1.5 quarts / pound mean what it says (so there will actually be only 1 quart of free water per pound in the mash after dough in) or do I compensate for absorption so that the actual amount of free...

That is my observation as well but is it correct?

Thank you for sharing your absorption data. I do account for the water volume under the false bottom and in the RIMS plumbing. Ignoring all the other factors my question is “Is the strike water volume needed for the desired fluid/solid ratio in the mash tun before or after the grain...

I’ll tell my story below but my question is: do you add the estimated amount of water due to grain absorption to your strike water calculation? If I have 20 pounds of grain and want a 1.5 quarts/pound water grain ratio, simple math would say I want 30 quarts of water. However using the common...