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I just made the purchase and this is my first experience with the software. To those of you with previous BS experience... I'm messing around with it now and am not getting accurate calculus. Off of 9lbs of DME, 1lb of Crystal 40, and .75lbs of table sugar in a 5gal batch, the program is...

I hear you @bennyd and will follow your advice echoed by other folks, all of whom are surely more experienced than I. Just a little gun shy from my RIS loss, but I cannot argue. Thanks for the help!

I doubt it. Especially because it looks like your blowoff tube isn't submerged in the catch water, but rather is stuck into the end of a funnel that is submerged in that water (which I like, btw). As per my situation outlined above, for good measure I would hang the center of the hose from...

Yes, I see what you mean now. Thx. I was on your page, just didn't realize it! In the end, I'm just going to be sure there's a tall arc in the blowoff tube between beer and bucket so it's not so easy for my brew to jump ship in the middle of fermentation. Oh, and keep a closer eye on my...

point taken. i suppose siphon isn't the right word choice. perhaps 'channel' or 'medium' might work? all i know is that at high krausen, that beer was going ka-razy. OG measured out at 1.120 and i had a huge pitch. i could see the foam moving densely through the hose and there was a thick...

thanks @malintent. when the aforementioned happened to me the two vessels were on the same level. the hose was inserted properly. i was definitely surprised at what happened which is why i went looking for answers. when i found the info saying to place the blowoff bucket HIGHER it made...

good point on the backfire possibility, and, yes, half the batch. the catch water was black and the yeast cake at the bottom was as large as the one in the carboy. it as crazy. i read about the elevation of the bucket on some forum somewhere... or was it in a book? anyway, perhaps above the...

I brewed a big ol' RIS and knew the blow off tube was an absolute must. and boy was it ever! the problem was that it ended up acting as a siphon, transferring about half my batch (yeast, of course, included) into the bucket. sh*t! fermentation stalled, pitch was off now, and i had only about...