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Jimmy do you do any special cleaning for the pump and hoses before or after? Boiling wort for 20min should take car of it, but what about after? Notice trub dump being easier at all?

I just do hop stands in lieu of whirlpooling.

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Breeze of a brew day yesterday. After dialing in my new MMPro-2 gap settings I hit 78% efficiency on a simple session oatmeal IPA. During the mashout I was able to crank my pump up to recirc faster than I ever have before and was draining no issue. Also kegged 10 gallons of my Pumpkin Ale the...

Very cool idea :mug:

Thanks. I've done the keg hop at keezer temp until the keg floats but always seem to get a bit of gunk for the first 7-8 pints. I've also thrown the hops in loose before in the primary bucket and was happy with the resulta. Lately with the conical setup I've dry hopped at the end of primary...

Thanks for the "final" recipe Coff, I'm gonna brew this one again with the changes you noted. Few clarifications - when you dry hop in the keg do you dry hop at room temp and then remove them? Or at keg temp and leave them in? Also, what carb level do you shoot for? I've heard of a lower...

Fermenting away at 68*, put the 2lbs of honey and 2lbs of Grade B syrup in at day 2 right as peak fermentation slowed down. Hopefully will be kegging in a few weeks and then let it condition until late September.

I have a Stirstarter.com stir plate that I bought 2 years ago, which the magnet interfered with the top of the plate when any pressure was put on it (ie a full Erlenmeyer), so it's basically junk to me. I have around $7k into my electric BIAC setup so $130 is just a drop in the bucket :D

As an update - I purchased a Maelstrom stir plate (highly recommend), busted out the old 2L Erlenmeyer and made a nice 1.5L starter with 3 vials of WLP008 East Coast Ale yeast and pitched into my 10 gal Pumpkin ale last weekend. Have to say it wasn't too bad and I'm going to plan to stick with...

For the medium BIAC I dial down my heat control to 25-30% of full power. That keeps it from scorching anything and also keeps it from re-heating the recirculating wort too fast creating mismatched temps. I would manually vorlauf first but I like to recirculate all my water first to get all my...

I believe it's in Tools > Advanced > Grain Absorption Rate. I've changed mine to 0.78 according to my first 5 brews and thought I had it dialed in, but still seem to come out with more wort, though the last few bathes have had lots of flaked adjuncts and then latest had 6lbs of pumpkin.

It's the grain absorption rate. Typical batch sparge 3 vessel system is 0.96 and BIAB is around 0.78, which is where I was at originally, and now after switching to 0.78 I'm still ending up with too much.

Also forgot to mention that I had a nightmare of a brewday, probably mostly my fault. Did a pumpkin beer with 6lbs of pureed pumpkin in the mash with 1lb of rice hulls. I dumped the hulls and pumpkin in first, and then the grain. Big mistake. Clogged up my Chugger with rice hulls as well as...

I am also considering having Jaybird build a custom low rise false bottom for a 2-stage filtering of the grainbed. I can recirculate pretty decent but would like to mill a little finer and still increase recirculation speed. Jaybirds False bottom on my old mash tun did wonders vs the stock...

Well going to try this recipe again this weekend with a few changes from last year. Maple and honey will be going into primary at peak fermentation. Going to use east coast ale wlp008 instead of S05. Also considering hot steeping the pumpkin in the strike water instead of mash, and if...

Checking into this thread as my fiance and I will be going to Belgium for our honeymoon next spring. Great tips!

I have the Thermoworks 8100, but it looks like that one is more compact with the same accuracy for half the price. I'd definitely go that route.

I would be all over that winch setup if I had a relief somewhere close to where I brew to mount it.

Kegged my attempt yesterday. Finished at 1.012 with WLP550 from 1.071 OG. Tasted great out of primary, looking forward to this one.