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Anyone have ideas on how to improve hop exposure during boil and whirlpool in a recirculating system like the SVBS from SsBrew? They recommend using hop spider, which I’ve done but I feel like I get a muted quality to the beer with these. I’ve tried a few different sizes. I finally tried just...

I did. It's pretty awesome. I've been brewing on a home-built system, using a milk crate to support my burner and a kettle that I punched holes in for thermometer, outlet valve and whirlpool arm, for 15 years. Pretty excited to have a purpose built system! I'm in the process of organizing...

instructions say to run non-foaming sanitizer thru the pump circuit prior to brewing. is everyone doing that or using a different approach, such as just running boil thru it?

sorry, I mean how are you getting a sample out of the kettle? my current set up has a ball valve at the bottom of my kettle that I BIAB and boil in, so I just open it and take a sample. Do you do the same by opening the 'knockout' valve? If you do this pre-boil then you're leaving the tubing...

Sorry to jump in on this. I’ve got the SVBS arriving Monday. Working on getting things ready for first brew. This thread has been great and answered a lot of questions. Here’s a dumb one - how are you obtaining pre-boil gravity sample?