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Yes, if upper left is drive roller

I believe the drive roller turns the bottom roller, so the bottom roller turns the opposite of the drive roller, as the grain path is b/w the drive roller and the bottom roller. The bottom roller gap is set off the drive roller, this is critical! This video may help you assuming similar to...

Well glad you only burned your t shirt and not your belly :) Yes, welcome to the boilover club...it is a right of passage that only reading about can’t cure. Lastly imo best to forget your IT technological genius and keep it dead simple lol welcome

Yes you can try this...however a keggle bag is ridiculously large imo as a hop bag although some people do as you suggested. I would suggest getting smaller hop bags.

Perhaps a big part of your problem is your using a 3 gallon kettle to catch the run off from a 20 gallon basket lol. I have used a Rubbermaid 12O qt plastic tote, or I have also used a 55 gallon drum cut short to about 24”. And I meant to put the tote, or tub on the floor adjacent to the...

Best method is to mount a track or uni strut to the ceiling that accepts a roller hanger trolley to give your pulley attachment point horizontal movement. Easiest is to have a large oversized Rubbermaid like tote immediately adjacent to the kettle on the floor, so you are either dripping back...

Ok...inspect the grain closely....do you see many uncrushed unbroken kernels of grain? Or post a close up pic of the grain if you like... Sorry not trying to be a Debbie downer, just poor crush is a common obstacle for first timers, that’s all.

Who crushed your grain? All grain brewing with poorly crushed grain can give poor conversion and extraction of sugar and result in low gravity. Nice job on building the manifold...and that’s coming from a guy who doesn’t like manifolds lol. I suspect flow will stop when the liquid level gets...

I have not used a sewage ejector pump to move spent grain. I have used one in a basement bathroom for over 20 years. I have had fleeting thoughts after carrying 15g batch spent grain bills up and out of the basement brewery to the woods behind my house, and thought an ejector pump and a slick...

It is not that difficult to measure out priming sugar for individual bottles, either by volume or weight for the couple extra bottles left in your fermenter. Priming sugar calculator works well ime.

Hmmm.... Perhaps a BIAB false bottom from brewhardware.com would reduce the volume outside the mash as you could lower it tight to the element? Slip a tall boy perforated empty beer can over your element to keep the bag off the element, and don’t use the basket? Or two 12 oz cans depending on...

Large batch BIAB has been done many times without issue....I sell to several brew pubs domestic and international. Satisfied repeat customers:) https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/145-gallon-biab-yes-145-gallon.483965/

Be careful what you believe in lol... Perhaps your mashout just marginally helped to overcome another issue, like perhaps a poor grain crush? Crush better and perhaps watch your efficiency climb into the mid eighties or higher, then you’ll have another thing to believe in :) Somebody around...

Wow 86.49 %, with some practice maybe you can bring that up to 87.13% Kidding aside, with a decent crush 80+ efficiency should be easily attained for normal gravity beers. High gravity horse of a different color :)

As said above, I would keep it simple. Bag, pot and a heat source. No pump, no valve on the kettle....at those volumes you can pour the kettle to fermenter or use a 1/2 gal pitcher to ladle chilled wort. Mash temp can be kept stable by placing your mash kettle in a warm oven.....done. Jmo

Stir well twice, take a break for a few minutes then stir well twice again, then get out your thermometer. Ime it takes much longer and much more stirring and waiting than one would think for temps to stabilize and be uniform throughout the mash. With patience and mixing you will get...

“This” is now $75....not $22 sale that you got.... Timing is everything I guess lol

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Low carb is highly preferable to high carb foam bombs lol... Fwiw, overstating the volume, or using fermenter volume would lead to more prime sugar and more carbonation. You did good

1.015 OG is really low! I would think you had an inaccurate gravity reading unless your grain crush was extremely poor.