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Initially I only had issues missing my OG with beers >1.065. Once I started doing a small pour-over sparge that issue was resolved. Yesterday I hit my target of 1.075, the first time I brewed this beer, without a sparge, I got 1.063. Your recipe looks to be 1.065ish so you could be in a bit of...

Recirculating wort through the grain bed is not the same as sparging. The idea with sparging is that after your initial runoff you rinse the grains again with plain water to get any remaining sugars. Wort is already saturated with sugars so you will not gain much, if any by running it through...

HERE or HERE take your pick :D

I'm thinking along similar lines, tomorrow I'm doing my fifth batch. First two I did Simcoe pellets, then Simcoe whole, then Chinook pellets. Tomorrow I'm going with Mosaic and subbing Caravienne for US C20...

I don't bother reheating, it sits in a bucket until I'm ready to use it then I use a small pitcher (2 cup) to pour the sparge water as evenly as possible directly in the basket. I don't have a COFI system, but use an open top mesh basket, I use the small pitcher because it's easier maneuver...

I have found once my gravity starts to go north of 1.060 a sparge helps a lot. To do this I'll do a 120 min boil which increases the total amount of water required. Once I get the total amount of water up to strike temp I'll pull about 1 - 1 1/2 gal and save that to sparge with once the mash and...

Nice setup very similar to mine :D

I have three and love them. 50+ batches so far and no issues. I use the spigot for kegging every time. I cover the spigot during fermentation with a baggie and rubber band and at kegging time do a visual inspection then spray with starsan and proceed. I also take the spigot apart to clean after...

Last summer I did the Kona Big Wave recipe available here and simply mixed it with a grapefruit soda (Squirt) at serving time to make a shandy. It was very tasty...

I heartily agree, see post #12 :D

I would say probably, none of mine ever leak out so I would guess the reverse is true. My concern would be sanitation of the spigot if you plan on using it for transfers, I'm sure that can be dealt with, but I guess I simply don't like the idea of submerging the spigot to begin with. FWIW...

I've had it crash when editing/saving brew steps a number of times, but never during a brew session. Lenovo A10 tablet. With the crashes I've had it hasn't offered to send any reports, it crashes hard by completely closing. Version 1.25

For me it's not been an issue, although in full disclosure I clean my kettle with BKF after every brew. Not sure if that qualifies as a passivation step, but I've never done one intentionally.

I believe he got overwhelmed with questions and chooses not to post much anymore. But I believe he will be contributing articles at Denny/Drew's site from time to time. http://www.experimentalbrew.com/blog

I see your point, but for the minimal effort involved it makes sense to me to keep it off the element. Perhaps it's just the "warm & fuzzy" effect at play :D

I've adopted that starter method as well, but I aerate with O2/stone rather than shaking the beejeezus out of a gallon jug :D

Here are a couple pics of my chiller. I intend to drill and tap the hook and attach it with screws to clean things up a bit. I think it's worthwhile to keep it off the element, once full of water it has a bit more weight to it, no need stress it especially where it's sealed coming out of the...

I tried something similar a couple batches ago by slowly recirculating in to my hop spider with a Wilser hop bag. It plugged up tight, like a hoppy water balloon. Like you said playing with the mesh size will be required, but I'll be surprised if there is a size that will allow the required flow...

I do, until recently to keep the chiller off the element I would simply leave the false bottom in for the boil and set the chiller on that. Now I am experimenting with not using a hop spider and letting the pellets go commando in the boil. To facilitate a better whirlpool to concentrate the now...

I guess you're looking for something to both recirculate mash and whirlpool wort. I use the arm in the picture for the mash and have a separate whirlpool arm that attaches the same way.