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Yup https://learn.kegerator.com/types-of-water-for-homebrewing/ Spring is decent for certain beer styles. Needs to be pumped up a bit for others.

I would not use distilled water for health reasons, true or myth. When I lived in the city and my water was bad I would buy jugs of Poland spring and build up my water profile with additions. I used Poland spring because I was able to find the parameters online. That was years ago, perhaps you...

I’m sure you are correct. I have a ph meter and I know my water chemistry. I am friends with my water company and they get a laugh when I call asking whether the data has been updated for my area. For my purposes, the 5.2 mash stabilizer works well and I will continue to use it.

Rice?? What are we Budweiser now? Just kidding. I did not add any rice hulls, but I am sure the hulls help separate the grains. In my case, my grain was very fresh, the crush was great and I used 5.2 mash lock. I suspect these things helped me quite a bit. PS-My first Brewie beer, Rusty...

I put the bags in side by side with one next to the hole in the mash tun and the other to the right of the first bag (if you were looking at Brewie from the front). Then I pushed the grains flat with my hand to spread them around and make sure the corners of the mash tun were filled with grain...

Brewed a chocolate stout this weekend with a recipe that I have used before. I am happy to report the brewday was perfect and my B+ performed flawlessly. I achieved 75% efficiency by splitting the grains into two bags, placed side by side, with a 75 min mash at 150 F and a 45 min sparge at 170...

170, 172, all the same. I was wondering if your longer sparge was at your final mash temp (150-152 etc) or whether it was at a mashout temp (170-172). The mashout step yields a much better efficiency. We have seen this with BIAB systems, which is essentially what brewie is. Thanks for clarifying.

What temp are you using for the longer sparge? A mashout to 170 is a key factor in this type of setup.

My barley crusher is .039” standard which is 1mm. I’ve had good results at that setting. Double crushed a few brews and it gets too mushy so I stick with .039”. It is definitely better than most home brew shops and helped efficiency significantly.

I’d say the longer “sparge” (ie a full volume recirculation) definitely helps. My ideal program would be a 20 min mash then a 60 min full volume recirculation followed by a 170 mash out. I emailed brewie and unfortunately this program is not possible. This is what I used on my two vessel system...

My guess is you got an air pocket under the bag and it scorched the bag in the process. I have done that with my old e-biab system, certainly not fun. You run that risk with a direct fired mash system. I wish you could recirculate the entire mash at full volume and only fire the boil kettle to...

Guys, I highly suggest you use fermcap with this system. You will never have a problem with boilovers if you do!

My brand new B+ arrived last weekend and after a few restarts updated to the latest software, passed the short clean cycle and passed the test brew cycle. I still had one last free Brewie pad so I figured what the heck, let's do this. It was the Rusty Rex pad. I decided to put the B+ head to...

Rusty Rex is 8.8125 lbs of malt into 6.9 gallons of total water volume. So your efficiency was about 46-48%, about what I saw with my two brews that worked. Perhaps a bit lower because of the older grains or mash PH as suggested above. Brewie knows about the efficiency problems and they are...

I think that might apply to me by now, hah. Or at least delusional. My unit was recalled this morning and they will send me a new unit. So to recap: First B20 machine - fuse blew and software bricked on start-up, recalled. Total brews before failure = 0 Second B20 (new) machine - mash tun...

Wish I was joking. Clearly the SSR wasn’t the problem. It’s voltage or something else going on.

Well the SSR failed again, just like last time. The element stays on with just the plug in the wall. This time it failed at the beginning of the mash and I had grains in the machine. That was really fun trying to drain almost boiling wort without dry firing the element in the boil kettle...

I emailed Marcel (the CEO) about this thought yesterday and to my surprise he emailed back this morning to let me know they are designing and testing a malt pipe for a future release. So they are well aware of the low efficiency. He asked for any other suggestions and I let him know they...

Easiest way to tell the difference between the B20 and B+ is whether you have a toggle power switch on the back corner of the unit where the plug is located. If there is no toggle power switch, it is a B+. If there is a toggle power switch, it is the older B20. Sounds like you have a software...

Got word from Brewie that my unit is fixed. The SSR blew and they replaced it. I am waiting for the unit to be shipped back to me now. Tried the robobrew v3 this past weekend and it is pretty slick. It's not automated brewing by any stretch, but it is probably the best bang for your buck...