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Your final volume was 0.5g higher than expected which reduced your original gravity. You can adjust your boil off % to match how you system performed.

I noticed a difference: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/double-batch-results-158921/

Are you closing the valve after each vorlauf? My cooler MLT wall flexes when I adjust the valve which moves my manifold. Therefor, once I start the vorlauf, I never touch the valve. I lift the end of the hose above liquid level between vorlaufs.

Well, I gave it another try. Since I have 2 3/8" supplies, I bought a T and parallel both lines to the control valve at the burner. I am hoping this is equivalent to a 3/4" supply. So with 10' of 3/4" id supply, 3/8" valve, 1/4" jet, I did get a bigger flame and I did feel heat from it but...

Thanks for sharing your info. I have 3/4" id service I believe and 10' of 3/8" id hose roughly to the burner. I agree that I need to upgrade the supply I think.

I just got this and the only time I have really used it was to burn the paint off and boil some water in a new aluminum pot. Since I used a considerable amount of propane, and I have natural gas at home, I decided to try to convert this to natural gas. I found a chart which listed orifice...

I rolled up a piece of sandpaper and passed it through. I also used a razor blade knife to clean up the slits before using the sandpaper. Using a dowel or the shotgun cleaning kit is probaby better but I didnt have those.

I have seen this as well. I did not disturb the keg but the beer had been in the keg less than 2 weeks.

The info in Bobby_M's illustrated method still applies. Plus, by shaking, you need to allow some time for everything to settle. Now if you can modify his method (??psi for XX days) and magically hit perfect carbonation after XX days, you could keep a XX day rotation going. I have read some...

+1 to this. 2 of my kegs don't seal well when I remove the gas. If the beer was above the gas in tube, I would have a geyser!

Thanks Bobby_M! Another first time force carber using the illustrated method! I racked from primary (66 deg) to the keg around lunch time 5 days ago. Put it in the fridge (38 deg) with 25 to 30 psi. The following day in the evening release the pressure and set reg 12 to 15 psi. Sampled...

I also have had a problem with the ball getting stuck. Before you put it together, shake that part or look to see if it is stuck in the open/up position.

Wow. It has been a while since I shopped for computer parts. Newegg was/is my goto site for that. Next time I need a kitchen/home type thing I will have to check them out! :mug:

Where you adjusting up the pressure as the tank was running out? Thats my last guess. OK maybe I have one more. If you disconnect the gas at the keg, turn the reg all the way down, bleed the pressure off, can you reset the reg?

Do you normally keep your tank in the fridge and replaced it with a hot tank? The pressure may run high until the tank cools.

How are you preheating if you are adding water to the grains? If the center of the grain bed is hotter than the sides, I think you may be losing temp to the cooler. Suggest you preheat with your strike water (+12 deg) for 10 min then add your grains. How does you temp hold over the 60 min...

Before I had a decent understanding of what my preheating temp/time and strike temp should be, I would dough in 2 deg above my desired strike temp. It was common for me to lose 4 deg over the 60 min mash. Now, using the same cooler, I lose less than 2 deg over the 60 min mash. The only...

Welcome from North Palm Beach! :mug:

+1 on Beersmith since it can also compensate for the heat characteristics of your MLT type. Make sure you preheat your cooler with water 12 deg hotter than strike temp for 10 min. Over the 10 min the water should drop to your strike temp. Stir if the temp is still too high. If you are too...

Thanks for the replies everyone. Some good ideas here. I have been using one of those clamps that also has a place to hold tubing. I just put a rubber band around my autosyphon and hang it on the clamp. The rubber band holds to tight so adjusting it vertically is touchy. Plus it does not...