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I was actually thinking of lifting the basket on the clips, draining the Clawhammer kettle into a temporary holding tank, putting the basket back down and sparging once again in the Clawhammer. Then I would remove the basket completely and return the liquid from the holding tank to the...

Good idea, couldn't hurt for the first batch. I'm aware of this limitation. I'm still waiting for some general reviews of this system, but I imagine they wouldn't build it this way if it didn't work. I'm sure it's certainly better than my electric stovetop. 5 Gallon Great call out...

Great info Chris. I am actually looking into getting the digital brewing system from Clawhammer in order to move to all grain, but want to make sure it's going to work with GF grains. The fact that you can easily do step mashes and have precise temperature control is a huge selling point. I just...

What do you think about the stainless steel mesh BIAB systems? To me those seem pretty similar to a bag, thus negating the need for rice hulls. But I'm not sure how much you're having to move/shake the bag around and whatnot. For example, from Clawhammer:

Chris, do you use rice hulls?

Thanks. I have the ability to cold crash so I think I might do it anyway, just wanted others' experience. As a side note, I don't plan on transferring to secondary, I will cold crash and dry hop the primary. brewGF, the starting gravity was 1.067, pretty standard for IPA. The US-05 does fine...

I just brewed over the weekend using this method. Nothing fancy, just a standard GF IPA (6.6 lbs sorghum extract, 1 lb D-45, 1 lb buckwheat honey, 0.5 lb maltodextrin, US-05 and 10 mL clarity ferm). I wanted to keep it simple in order to really get a feel for what the clarity ferm does. One...

Thanks for posting this. I was seriously considering jumping to all-grain, but dreading the equipment purchases. I think I'll try this first instead. What's the best way to get Clarity Ferm?

Noob question, you can use that much unmalted grain and still get conversion?

Holy crap, 10.6 oz of hops?? That's about $28 worth of hops from my LHBS! You mentioned you cold crash before bottling. Do you use a hop bag as well?

Also, I do have the ability to cold crash, but I've never done it. I'm concerned with suck back and getting oxygen into the beer, but no one on this forum seems to have the same concern. If you lower the temp, air has to enter your container to balance the pressure, right? Thus disturbing the...

I'm familiar with the no-secondary discussion. I was going to go that route as well, but in the three GF batches I've brewed, I've always had a lot of sediment, so I kept using the secondary as a way to get the beer off the trub and get more to settle out. But then again, I've never used a...

You dry hopped in the primary? Why is that? I'm curious because I dry hopped my last batch secondary like usual, but it has hardly any strong hop aroma.

Thanks, I'll look into it.

This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for, thank you. I've been wanting to ditch sorghum somehow, but don't quite have the space for AG. Plus I have access to brown rice syrup at Whole Foods. Now I just have to get around the mill problem... it seems no one wants to sell malted & milled GF...

This is very encouraging. Seems like we're closer to being able to pull off a partial mash/AG batch inside an apartment. :D Now if only someone would sell milled GF grain.

That's a very good point, thanks.

ricemaltster, I'd be interested in it, but I am not a high volume brewer (3-5 gal every few months). A mill is just something I don't want to buy right now (too much stuff in the apt already).

You must have missed that this is gluten free brewing. :p

So are you saying that milling is necessary if trying to convert the grain properly? And cracking is sufficient if just trying to pull flavor?