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Bueller? I'd like to try this method if you could share your results and what issues you ran across. But if it's not worth it I'd rather not spend the time and money trying to recreate it.

So what was the final conclusion with this experiment? Do you still use this method? Run into any problems?

Has anyone considered doing a continuous recirculation of dry hops? Interesting article. Could easily be done with our setup. I wonder if you could leave the pump setup hooked up after whirlpooling so it's clean and sanitized without O2, and then proceed with the dry hopping after primary...

Hmm, that looks like it would work out pretty well. Only thing bad is it adds an element that will need to be cleaned/sanitized which sort of takes away from the beauty of the BIAC system. Racking port cane would automatically be sanitized during the boil, but risks of clogging. I suppose I...

I'd like to get a racking cane and whirpool, but from reading Jimmy82's results I have a feeling I'd clog the pump right away and be royally pissed off.

I either shine a flashlight at it or just lift it up out of the pot and see where the line is. It doesn't transfer heat to the lip of the handle at all so no worry of burning when lifting it out. My only gripe is that it's in liters so I'm always having to convert.

I use whatever amount of water beersmith says to put in their based on the recipe. I seem to boil off right around 1.8gal/hr +/- some depending on the weather. I've got my beersmith settings fairly locked in now to get exactly what I need post-boil.

I had been getting 65-75% mash efficiency for just about all my brews, moreso on the lower end 68-70%. Finally changed my cereal killer mill out with a MM2-Pro and dialed in the gap to I believe 0.045 and have gotten 78% efficiency the last two batches with no other changes. I always no-sparge...

Anybody have any tricks to get all the wort out of the pumps/hoses with the least amount of work or wort spilled? I usually take them apart starting from the top and try to catch it all in a bucket to dump back over the raised mash tun, but inevitably I end up spilling some.

Still making my way through this thread. What does everyone recommend for liquid yeast?

The beauty of the system is that's all the space you need! Couldn't be more happy with this setup, and now with the hoist its truly the easiest system ever. The one thing I am missing like you mentioned is a big ass sink, but rolling up the garage door and spraying everything out in the...

Made the day just that much easier. Finishing up the boil on my Westvleteren 6 clone

I'm so pumped to not have to wrestle that mash tun up with a helper and be fully solo once again! A track would be nice but I think mine should be pretty much good. My setup is in the corner opposite of my power rack and my NSX parked on the other side, plenty of room to get around.:mug:

It's the medium. I figured being a fairly athletic weightlifter that I could handle the mash tun myself when I first got it....nope :drunk:

Newest addition - Harbor freight electric hoist. Running a sale and got it for $70. Looking forward to not lifting that mash tun out anymore.

Kegged this a week and a half ago. Ended right at 7.9% at FG 1.012. Color looked great and flavor was much better than I remember straight out of the fermentor last year. Adding the syrup and honey at peak fermenation definitely lended more of their flavor than adding at flameout as I did...

Has anyone tried a kettle soured beer on the system yet? I've always avoided aours in fear of infecting everything but seems like kettle souring could be the ticket as you boil and kill off everything as the ph drops to where you want it. I guess you'd have to be careful with the lid though...

Just dry hopped with 4oz each in primary after 7 days. Hopefully kegging Thursday and having it ready for CFB kickoff this Saturday.

Sounds pretty slick. Do you completely empty all the tubing after the mash and then reassemble for the boil? I'd be leary of having a few cups of unboiled wort in the lines if kept hooked up after the mash, guess you could recirculate during the whole boil bit that seems like a waste. My...

A grain mill is good to have regardless to eliminate another variable and fine tune your system. With my new MMPro-2 I'm dialing it in but the last brew at 0.043 was great. I'll see how it works going forward. I debated back and forth on the 2 vs 3 roller but decided I wanted to use my...