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Got the plumbing all reworked this past weekend and updated the process flow so now I can either heat in BK and then pump to MLT or stick with standard heat water then mash in grain. Going to be making a german lite lager this weekend, maybe ill film some parts of the process. The only hands on...

totally dig it, nice work.

turn up to 3 to get siphon going then you just need like 1psi to prevent it from creating a vaccume

are you bottling with a proper bottling wand to minimize O2 pickup?

it totally depends on so many conditions, you can easy go way over the tolerance listed on yeast, you can also have them crap out way before that point too.

another vote for turkey fryer biab. I use a sump pump for running water out in my garage when I brew, if you have a generator you could toss that guy in the creek with a hose and it would take care of that issue.

yea I am recirculating the mash. 72% is my very consistent mash efficiency. It appears stirring / not stirring has no effect on efficiency numbers with my system as suspected. At least with the 10lb grain bill. Dough balls might become a bigger concern at bigger gravity beers with like 15-20lbs...

water chem / ferm temps / bad process in general / poor sanitization all can lead to consistent off flavors batch to batch. My vote is you have harder water and are not doing anything about it but we need more info to help boss.

Lol just got 72.6% by adding water to the mash and not mixing. Time to move some hoses around and edit processes! 90% Automation here I come haha

I always boil off about 1.5 gallons per hour doing 5 gallon bathes. Never had a taste issue that I have noticed. Why is bigger boil off an issue?

you can save 19 mins off that boil, or just mix it was a bottle of water and skip all that nonsense

I bought a real kriek the other day it said they use 400g/L cherries to lambic. but I would probably start around 2lbs a gal and go up from there. 400g/L is a crap load of cherry, it tasted awesome though.

thats one hell of a good price, if I needed one and was in the area. Side note I dont party and use the crap out of mine, no idea what you are talking about.

Brew Day 7/26/2015 Notes: 5.5 gallons of 1.059 Brew day went smooth. Used slurry from La Foliesh (California lager yeast), Used O2 for the for 30 seconds. fermenting at 60-61 8/10/2015 Began cold crashing, after it spent the previous week at 65 8/13/2015 On tap and its awesome, nice and caramel...

What tweaks? My work bought us some anchor steam today and it reminded me that this needs to have a permanate spot on tap at my house. I crave this beer more than any others I have made

15oz of hops per 2.5 gallons? I would assume ROI on that in minimal and you could probably go close to half that.

Helles / Pilsner / Patersbier are all on my goto list in the summer, just recently made a semi sour berliner that will be added to that list too after a couple tweaks.