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I never time it but I’d say about 15 minutes or less. For sure faster than the stock cooler.

I don’t use the pump during boil or while the wort is heating up, but I do use my whirlpool attachment at flameout, while the wort cools down - so a few minutes at or near boiling. I suppose using it while the wort is heating up is the same, but in reverse...

First many years of brewing I used liquid yeast (aka) White Labs and I almost always did a starter. For whatever reason I’m not prepared to admit, I’ve always hated doing starters, so early this year I switched to dry yeast and now never do a starter. Since the yeast costs half as much I have no...

I have the Robobrew 3.0... Recirculation, no issues with oxidation. You can add a 3/8” silicon tube any length you like to avoid air, but I don’t see it as an issue. The main issue I and others have, depending on the malt bill, is poor recirculation flow through the tall/skinny malt pipe. I...

The ABV for that style starts at 8%. I suppose you could scale back the grain bill and give it a try, or you could find a different stout recipe - for instance I recently brewed an oatmeal stout and tapped it about 3 weeks after brewing. The risk with scaling the recipe is that not all grains...

My goal is always to minimize trub every step in the process so I don’t end up with a big pile in the fermenter. I always use a hop spider, actually have two sizes and the small one fits in the middle of my chiller if I want to keep hops while chilling. That said, I separate whirlpool and...

I always brew in the basement, year round, near the back door, and do my cleanup on the back porch. Agree on the hop basket, I hold mine over the kettle with a glove. Should be a pretty easy solution...

The display is hard to read, very narrow viewing angle. I put my 35L on a milk crate, which helps a little.

Something like this? https://www.harborfreight.com/500-lbs-capacity-hydraulic-table-cart-61405.html

I’ve never brewed a Gose or even an Oktoberfest. Both are on my list however on my return I have a Belgian dark strong ale queued up that’ll probably get priority.

You Robobrewers have been silent for a couple weeks. I shut down my fermenters for an extended trip from NC to UT but have an imperial stout, barleywine, and rye IPA conditioning for my return :-) 18 Robobrew batches in the books so far this year and plans for at least three more when I return...

Go for it! Ward labs for water tests.

Its pretty common for brewers to add gypsum to IPAs without running a water profile analysis. I use BeerSmith and I have very neutral ground water (NC mountains), checked my go to pale ale recipe, calls for 9 grams gypsum - converts to roughly 2 tsps. I don’t see you’ll go wrong with that as a...

Its taken me weeks to sell items on Craigslist, but in my experience someone will eventually come through. Good luck!

Did you post it on Craigslist of FB marketplace? I like to say everything sells on Craigslist, eventually...

I’m not familiar with the Digiboil, but it looks essentially the same as the Robobrew/Brewzilla. I use Beersmith and with my profiles It always sets me up with a 1.7 grist ratio and I’ll go with 1.6 on bigger grain bills. My mashes aren’t thick like oatmeal and you also be aware the heating...

I’ve always fly sparged and never thought about an alternative. I read the Brulosophy review and it seems to me that batch sparging is extra work and time. What am I missing?

I’ve always managed the recirculation to avoid overflow and realized last session when the extension separated that I never use the overflow pipe and it just gets in the way.

I did a thermometer calibration today while I was flushing my Robobrew at 150 F - the Robobrew sensor was dead nuts same as my Thermapen, no offset. There could be a lot of variation from unit to unit though...