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Missed this response MBG, sorry about that. I have no issues accounting for the lower efficiency, except that another pound or two of grains puts me that much closer to this things max capacity. I've only got about 3-4 recipes where this would be an issue and although I don't want to add extra...

Whirlfloc tablet at 15 minutes to go and never look back. Except through your crystal clear beer.

I will say though, almost all can be forgiven when I get to sit for an hour drinking a beer while this thing cleans itself. Quick work with the hose and done, can't be mad about that.

Not really, once it's small it won't get any smaller. Knowing the mill at my LHBS I'd bet it's half my issue from today.

Bought one 12 years ago, loved it! Unfortunately it's in MN with my former brew partner. :smh:

So here's where I start to get frustrated. I'm brewing a white ale today with 47.5% of the grain bill being white wheat and a total of 11lbs of grains. I did this exactly the same as the Saison I did a couple weeks ago that finished with 82% mash efficiency, one exception being the addition of...

If the math works I'm not worried about pretty. Don't have Excel and no interest in an open source platform either. Yesterday I tried just opening it directly into Sheets and it didn't work. It took downloading it locally, then uploading into my drive to get it going. Seems to work fine, playing...

No doubt, I was just lazy yesterday. I downloaded it, then uploaded it into Google Sheets and that got it working. Pretty slick, thanks for sharing!

Great info from both of you so thanks for chiming in! And thanks Doug for doing the math, I tried the link posted above but couldn't get it to work. It all makes sense, I've just never personally seen a spread that big. Starting to think these all in ones aren't as "simple" as I'd originally...

The previous grain bill was 9.5lbs, so considerably less but I wouldn't expect that to equate to a 9% spread between the two batches. My efficiency on my previous keggle system would vary maybe 2-3% from the smallest to heaviest grain bill. I've said it before, if I can stay in the mid 70's I'll...

So anyone see a correlation between bigger grain bills and lower mash efficiency? After a couple really good runs I decided to do my big DIPA last weekend. It's a 15.25lbs grain bill, I pulled 1.5 gallons for a sparge but the mash was still plenty fluid. Followed the same routine that netted me...

Looks pretty normal to me, man! If you're worried about grabbing the stuff on the bottom you can turn the dip tube up to 90 degrees, but make sure you account for the added volume when it comes to losses.

Mind sharing where you got this set at? I've seen precision sets that are dialed to certain gravity ranges, but not one dialed in to a higher temp. I will say, if you have a refractometer and it's properly calibrated it's pretty awesome for everything leading up to fermentation. Yes, you may...

You can also look for channeling when you pull the grain pipe up. Pull it very slowly and as the wort runs out you should be able to see it present as a shallow, loose spot on the grain bed. While you're checking your boil off verify your kettle losses as well.

My personal opinion, we may be focusing way too much on what the grain pipe does or doesn't do during the mash. I get it if you're chasing every last % point for efficiency and it's what you're into. But ultimately if you can consistently reproduce a mash efficiency you're happy with and you're...

That's the one. You'll have to cinch it down quite a bit during recirculation to get a nice slow flow but it works great.

Brewing is what you want it to be, man! Personally I love the numbers aspect. Even more when I can use that data to reduce workload while making a kickass beer. 🍻

With beers that big I really wouldn't sweat 1-2 points. The only other things I could recommend are making sure you give the wort a really good stir before taking any samples, and maybe do some digging into the software you're using to see if this is a common occurrence with other users. If it's...

Gravity, in beer at least, isn't an exact science. And the number of points you pick up will be impacted by the overall sugars in the wort. Lower gravity beers won't gain as much as big ones. If I'm within a point or two I don't sweat it too much. And as you mentioned, if your volumes are...

Find somewhere that carries BBQ supplies and get a set of heavy grilling gloves. I use mine mostly for smoking meat but they make really good brewing gloves too.