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C13 is correct for a 20L. A previous post stated that 50L takes a C19.

Your actual electricity voltage is probably somewhere between 220v and 250v. It should be the same as all other residential 240v systems in the U.S. The 250V on the receptacle is just its rating. It is not the voltage of your electricity. If you measure the voltage across the two hots of...

I've figured out what happened. I brewed another batch of beer Sunday (a Brown Ale). When the system announced that the mashing process was complete. It waits for you to press a button acknowledging the message.... BUT it does not pause its processing until you acknowledge the message - at...

Here is a pic of the wort (near beer?) Friday morning (yeast was pitched Thursday evening). Notice how much the beer line has dropped. I started out with 19.5 liter (5 gal 17 oz). It is now at about the 4.8 gal level. Note, I did not create a starter in advance. We brewed on Wednesday...

I had no choice. The two top sieves and the grain below moved up above the malt pipe and grain began flowing out all around the malt pipe.

Measured SRM (before fermenting): 10.2 A little high for an American Blonde. Will measure again when ready for kegging.

No damage to the machine. Just had to scrape off the sticky from where the jacket stuck to the vessel. Yay! for stainless. I may not have needed the jacket. The water test with 15l and no jacket provided vigorous boil, but that was with no grain and less water than used during the actual...

An American Blonde Ale (the camera makes it look a little darker) SG: 1.051 Yeast has now been pitched. Let the fermenting begin!

I added water to the 15l mark before inserting the malt pipe, then added 4.3 kg of grains. I thought that 15l would be enough. It was not. I believe the pump was not running when we started removing the malt pipe. If I remember correctly the system prompted us to remove the malt pipe and...

Pic of wort attached. You can see some of the Irish moss sitting on the sieve near the bottom right of the pic. Wort is very clear at this point. Pic must have been taken before the grain overflow. Because of the events of the day we did not get any other pics taken and only a minute or...

Because of the aforementioned problem and other happenings (we spend too much time talking with a neighbor who stopped by during the brew), we got behind the curve and let the system get ahead of us. I screwed up and added the Irish moss during the last few minutes of the mash instead of...

We had a near catastrophe yesterday When it came time to lift the malt pipe, I removed the wing nut and the top sieves and the grain under them suddenly rose, and before I could react, were 1/8" above the top of the malt pipe and grain was overflowing into the outer compartment. It took...

I increased it to 101C and started to get boil over. Had to baby sit it to keep it from boiling over.

Today we will be brewing our first batch on the 20L - not only our first batch on the 20L, but our first batch ever. I hope to capture much of today's activities on video. Hopefully Assistant Brewer Larry remembered to charge the battery of his video recorder last night. For this first brew...

Mash-in: 38C Phase 1: 5 min @ 53C Phase 2: 30 min @ 63C Phase 3: 30 min @ 73C Phase 4: 15 min @ 78C Phase 5: 0 min @ 78C (Mash-out) Boil: 80 min @ 100C

The machine was shipped via FedEx. Un-boxing went well. No damage to anything. I took a lot of pics but pruned down to only the few below. As you can see the Braumeister is packed with multi-layer, heavy-duty corrugated cardboard. There is no 'conventional' packing material; instead, there...

Water test went very well today. Lot's of video recorded. Will take some time to review and edit. Some highlights: We were using only 15 liters of water. Each mash rest was set at 5 minutes. Ambient Temperature: 15C Barometric pressure: 30.52 Ground Elevation: 600 ft Beginning Water...

Water test Tuesday.... Assistant Brewer is charging his video camera battery tonight....I've never put anything on YouTube before, but if the video is worthwhile I'll see what I can do....standby...

How about now?