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I recently brewed a 22P beer with the following grain bill: 15lbs pilsner, 8lbs munich, 2lbs aromatic and 2lbs sugar (in the boil) During the mash I did several steps with a direct fire mashtun. After sparge I found a large amount of scorching with a thick layer of burnt material...

What is a burping mash? Well, I think it may be unique to my method of mashing and I want to find a solution. Let me explain. I do a modified batch sparge. I drain the first runnings as you would for a batch sparge. Then, I slowly fill the mashtun again to perform a fly sparge. I don't...

I'm trying to figure out how to design a tippy dump for my yet to be built Brutus. I need advice on how to solve a few problems: (1) How do you determine the position of the tippy and the swing angle of the mashtun? (2) Is it a problem for the mash tun to be higher than (i.e. not sit...

I direct fire my mash tun, which has a false bottom. Usually I don't have a problem with scortching, but yesterday when I was mashing 18 lbs of Pilsner malt for a Golden Strong in a multi-step mash I got a huge amount of scortching. I stirred constantly and pumped out full bore as usual...

I’m interested in constructing an electric RIMS like what is used on the Brew Magic system. It’s a large copper pipe with an electric heating element inserted in one end. Anyone built one?