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Ok, update time. Brewed again, same recipe but with 2% saurmaulz added to get the right PH for the mash. I stired like crazy at dough in and mash out. I got my mash PH DEAD on this time 5.2. I also made the flow during fly sparge much lower and made my silicone tube much longer to have it...

Yep their change in water made a rather large difference, the alkalinity more than doubled: pH 7.6 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est 502 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.84 Cations / Anions, me/L 8.2 / 7.8 ppm Sodium, Na 78 Potassium, K 6 Calcium, Ca 69 Magnesium, Mg 14 Total Hardness, CaCO3...

Ok, I can do that, that's not hard, haha. The EZ water 2.0 spread sheet shows that if I do that however my predicted mash ph would be 5.05, so that makes me kind of sad that it doesnt seem to be accurate (we'll know for sure when I get my 2nd water report back) for me. But like you said, be...

So I'll speak up here for once about pumps, usually just leerk, haha. I went back and fourth on the march 809 vs the LG 3-MD-HC series pumps quite a bit. I finally got the LG pump. There are a few major advantages to the LG's IMO. One they never have to be oiled (the 809 states it should be...

So I just brewed the above recipe and measured with a calibrated PH meter. I got a mash PH of 5.6 about 30 min in. I'll note that I did a 20 min dough in at 110 and so this was 10 min into a sach rest at 154 and I took the sample from the very top wort of the mash. I should note that I took the...

Yea I have a flow control valve on the RIMS tube out just before it goes back into the MLT. I however do not have one on the HLT pump out to the MLT in, I'm thinking I may add one for this very reason. Oh, and yes I have 3 pumps. 2 are LG pumps, the fast one is the 3-md-hc which goes from HLT...

No, we never did an iodine test either. I'm really thinking that the no stiring is what really did us in. I'll look into doing an iodine test, that or just making sure our mashes always last long enough.

Well, I pretty much knew this was going to happen... first AG batch hit 60%(note this is the brew house efficiency).. I know I know, I'm being the clasic perfectionistic self that I am and would like higher efficienty. I did a fat tire clone. 11.375 lbs of grain with 1.25 q/lbs mash. My system...

The numbers would change. Cool hot would go to 1 still, the fan hot would go to 5, the heat hot would go to 3, and the 7/8 would stay the same... That is assuming that the diagram is showing the normally closed operation of the relay (no current through the coil), which it usually is.

Thanks for all the information. Here I was all worried about how my water might need to be adjusted only to find out that's its pretty much perfect the way it is, haha. Gee, I wonder why fat tire is brewed in ft collins, makes sense doenst it? Mabrungard, you're right about the mash...

I swore I wasnt going to be one of those guys that made a post about water adjustment after so many posts have been made on it, but here I am. I got my water profile back from Ward and it looks fairly nice, my issue is that the total hardness is a little high, yet if I dilute the water I go...

I'd setup the float so it doesnt get submerged like they do with the auto sparge. As long as 1/2 of the tube diameter is above water it wont siphon. The issue also happens on the HLT to MLT transfer, and I dont have a sparge arm, and dont really need one if I can get this to work, just like...

Well it depends on how the valves are setup, but with the pump off on my setup you can back siphon from the BK to the MLT once the sparge pump is shut off sense you have a direct line out from the bottom of the MLT to the top of the BK. So if your hose is submerged after sparge the volume in the...

Well, I tried normal pipe insulation, but the foam and rubberized foam from lowes/home depot to make a silicone tubing float like what they have on the blichmann auto sparge. Before use I tested it in boiling water just to make sure, both failed miserably at that temperature. So I shot an...

I'll put this here: http://www.brewtroller.com/forum/showthread.php?t=538&highlight=liquid+sensor and suggest this sensor: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=MPX5010DP-ND

I found an interesting link on the difference between trisodium phosphate and sodium metasilicate, turns out one is just an enviro safe one of the other, but both should do the same job. That means that the green box from lowes, or the TSP/90 from ACE are the phosphate free versions of the...

Well, for removing bottles I soak for about 20 min at 120 F, but for cleaning the brewery, etc I soak at 180 F. Mostly because I know I will be sticking my hands in the water for the lable removing. There are two boxes for the TSP, a green box and a red box that they carried at my lows...

Go to your local lowes and get the red box of TSP (trisodiumphosphate) and mix it with your oxyclean in a 30:70 TSP : oxy ratio by weight. It pretty makes PBW and gets rid of the white film problem. I had the same problem too until I did that. And it's a 4 dollar solution.

Success! With the throttle bar in place I crushed 3 lbs of conditioned grain in about 45 seconds, 1/3 of that was wheat too, haha.

The free running torque is pretty much not measurable... besides the fact that I have no way to measure it. But it spins freely by hand. Dry grain runs just fine, no issues what so ever, it's after the grain has been conditioned that's the issue. It might also be my impatience and running...