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I duct tape over the holes for the big ones.

That’s a thick mash! What was your grist ratio?

This is an interesting point. I also brew a lot of big beers in my 35L, never go higher than 17 lb in the mash, then add DME to the boil in exchange for a few pounds of base malt. I’ve got the brew house efficiency at 74% or higher and I appreciate the ease of use of the malt pipe, so I’ll stick...

I get that. How big of a grain bill have you done with that approach?

I‘ve shelved the center pipe and the top screen. My guess is it’s used to contain the grain within the malt pipe, especially if you’re using the center pipe for overflow.

Here’s my DIY sight “glass”. I set it up every session and calibrate by filling the vessel with pre-boil volume. Kind of a PITA, so I’ll take a look at the MoreBeer part.

I'd like to do the mod, but will think twice if theres a leeching risk...

I’d love to do this conversion on my Robobrew as it allows you to hit the pre-boil volume target. I use a silicone tube connected to the bottom spigot.

I bought my tower kit from keg connection or beverage factory (don’t recall). I also put a picnic tap on a keg every now and then.

I converted my 2 tap kegerator to 3 taps a few years ago. Three corneys just fit in.

Yeah, this year at least, I brew whenever one of my two primary fermenters open up. If the kegs aren’t open I just let it sit :-)

I’m backed up: RIS, pale ale, and pliney clone on tap; ESB and west coast IPA in keg in my backup fridge, Belgian Dark Strong and Biere de Garde extended conditioning in the fermenters. My son’s visiting between the holidays and we’re brewing a hopslam clone. whew!

It’s an excellent recipe. I brewed right after you but tapped it a Month ago. I’m getting positive, bordering on emotional feedback! I’m sure for that one neither of us had a 1.7 ratio :-o I pour a glass at the end of the evening and let it gradually warm up while I’m sipping it. Excellent!

BeerSmith appears to set a default 1.70 grist ratio which works well enough for me on most recipes. Seems my buddy and I had a similar ratio on the 26 gallon system we used to brew on. Both leverage sparge water. I’ve read that grist ratio has little impact on results although I assume there’s a...

I noticed when I tweak my mash in volume that the sparge volume shifts accordingly (at least in BeerSmith) - I wonder if the total volumes for Brewfather and BeerSmith are the same?

That would be starting from cold temp, right?

I’ve done some long whirlpools lately trying optimize my hop additions and I don’t think it’s adversely affected my beer. I found this on byo.com: Quickly cooling the wort also slows growth of some wort contaminants. Once the wort drops below 160° F (71° C) or so, there are many bacteria — known...

A couple sessions ago as tried to use my chiller to get the temp down and it shot right past. JADeD Scilla. Next time I’ll use a more controlled approach, like restricting water flow as it gets close.

I'd be interested to hear what y'all are doing for post boil hop additions. Until recently I'd add hops at flameout, whirlpool 20 mins, remove hops, then chill. Last few batches I let the wort cool (without a chiller), add hops at ~180F, continue whirlpool for ~15 mins, remove hops and chill...

I just bought another keg. I have 2 primary fermenters, 1 secondary fermenter (for conditioning), 6 kegs (5 can be refrigerated, 3 on tap). Basically I brew as soon as a primary fermenter opens up...