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Let me clarify: I put 14.5 gallons in my mash tun, heated it to 164 degrees (or thereabouts, don't have my notes), and mashed in. My HLT was at 152, recirculating the water. Upon starting recirc, my ToP started reading about 144, and my mash temp dropped significantly while my HLT heated to...

Is your mash tun insulated?

I'm recirculating fill bore with a chugger pump, and the temp is at the inlet to the mash tun, at the wort return

Ok, that's where I had it... I guess it just wasn't enough heat output to account for the loss.

I was full bore with the pumps, pots are stainless. I thought that because of the large thermal mass, that they would only be trying to drop a few degrees over the hour... Higher volume to surface area and all that. Sounds like you guys are right. I'll hit it with reflectix, and see if that...

Hi Homebrewtalk! I did my first brew on my HERMS system on Saturday, and I have an issue that I've been pondering. I used a ToP to sense the temperature of the sweet wort returning to the mash tun. I struck the grains to my mash temp of 152, and set the ToP to 151. After about 10 minutes of...

Well, I came in low... 70% efficiency instead of a planned 80%. I don't think that's too bad. I let the mash go for 90 minutes, and then fly sparged. This was my first herms, first 20 gallon on a brand new system, and the first batch in my new conical. There were several catastrophes...

Help! I'm mashing right now, 55 minute in. The ToP is reading 153 on the return... Spot on, but my mash temp seems to be 140 at my 2"thermowell. I didn't calibrate my analog :(. Do I trust the ToP? My hlt is at about 162...

Thanks so much for the info! I'm setting up tonight, for what I'm calling the fourth of brew-ly! I can't wait to try it, I can't imagine it not working. I'll just have to tinker with flow rates, as you said. But then again, this is 75% tinkering for me. Do you find the set point on the ToP...

Or you can weigh the doses. That's what I do when just carbing a few bottles.

Best of luck! As previously stated, beer is ready when it decides to be. It's a lot better to bottle past when it's ready by a couple of days (or a week) then before. Let us know how it turns out!

Wait for it to clear, or else all of that junk is going to settle out in your bottles, and they will have a ton of sediment in them

Ok, well... Beer in primary fermentation has tons of yeast suspended in it. Without seeing it, I would say that you are just seeing yeast. If you wait until primary is over, then rack to secondary, you should see it clear out. If you want it to clear faster you could crash chill it in...

No, the brewing technique. Was this a recipe kit with syrup/powders, or did you do a mash with all grain?

Extract or grain?

Question OP: Can you please discribe your sparge process? long shot, but you dont mention sparge water, just that you drain the tun. 55% is about the efficiency I've seen of my first beer in a Parti Gyle brew... just sayin

I am currently gearing up for 15-20 gallon batches with a brand new system. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f29/hello-home-brew-talk-478295/ I am running into two problems. First, I have recieved all (or a lot) of my stainless parts coated in manufacturing oils, residues, greases, etc. At...

Awesome! Thank you guys so much for the info! I can't wait to start pushing out 15-20 gallon batches! The ToP sounded appealing, but I hadn't heard about many setups. Glad I pulled the trigger now

Really? So you have the ToP sensor at the output of the HEX, and it fires the hlt burner? How tight is the control? Do you step mash with it?