1 st all grain in a beer machine!

[Stanley Thomas]

 

[Sammy86]

Very nice! I very much enjoy my beer making machine as well!

 

[Stanley Thomas]

Very nice! I very much enjoy my beer making machine as well!

Slow bringing up to boil but it's easy to control !
Better to relax and have a homebrew!

 

[Kickass]

I don’t own an all in one setup but from hence forth I will be referring to my kettle as my beer making machine.

 

[papasam]

Slow bringing up to boil but it's easy to control !
Better to relax and have a homebrew!

Will be doing a 6 gallon batch soon with a friend and his Vevor. Plan to sparge, any tips?

 

[lumpher]

I have a Mash'n'Boil. For sparging, if you have any other way heat it up while you're mashing, do that. I use either a propane burner setup or a pot on the stove to heat up the sparge water, depending on the heat here in Texas. If not, take the grain out, heat up your water, put the grain back in and sparge.

 

[IslandLizard]

If not, take the grain out, heat up your water, put the grain back in and sparge.

What would you do with the hot wort in the meantime?

You can sparge with cold water. A dunk sparge in a bucket/tub would probably be the most efficient. 2-3 gallons is probably plenty for the sparge.
Just make sure to subtract your sparge volume from the strike water volume. When sparging, you're not doing a full volume mash anymore.

 

[lumpher]

What would you do with the hot wort in the meantime?

Empty it into a bucket, then pour it back in for the boil. It only loses 2-3 degrees at most while sparging.

 

[Chuckbergman]

I'm researching AIO brewing systems and the Vevor is a great price for my budget. Any updates on using it in your brewing? Also curious on which sparge method you ended up going with?

 

[fluketamer]

wow so many vevor posts today . im not the only one. lol

love my vevor. wrap that baby up in reflectiex it gets up to boiling in no time.
and i bring it up to boil the night beofre and throw a blanket on it its plus or minus 10 degrees from mash out in the am

lastly no need for a seperate sparge heater. i bring all of the water up to 170 in the aio. run off the sparge into a 3 gallon -4 gallon kettle and place that in a preheat 170 oven its still at 170 after mash out when you ready to sparge.

if you do it right you can add cool water back to the aio after removing the sparge to bring your temp down to desired dough in and volume up to where you need it. just got to juggle your numbers a little


get a sight glass other wise you have to keep lifting out the pipe to see the level when sparging its a pain. sight glass also tells you how much water is below the pipe to make sure you dont dry out the base and cause scroching or worse element shutoff during a mash which is as scary to me as a stuck sparge.

 

[fbztobrew]

Just got a vevor. Can you show the assembly of malt pipe? Just want to make sure I've got it right.

 

[fluketamer]

at 246 in video he shows a pretty good shot of how it should be assembled. but basically . you have two screens. a false bottom to filter the grain bed. and a top screen to disperse the pump return water. the top screen is the one with the two small brackets on it. those face upwards on top of the return pipe and are used to lift out thte top screen for access to the mash. i stopped using it several brews ago. it didnt effect efficiencey.

from bottom to top
the 1/4 inch smooth nut goes under the false bottom screen.
then the false bottom goes next. the lip of the screen (WHICH S SHARP!) must face down to catch the lip inside the mash tun tube which is facing up (also sharp) . this makes a seal to prevent grain from going through the tun.
then goes the 1 inch smooth 1/4npt coupler.
that looks like this:

then you attach the telescoping mashtun overflow pipe. the small tube goes inside the big one to create the adjustable height tube.

then the adaptor goes on (seen at the top of the tube at 4.18 in the video) so you can put the white cap over the tube. the cap prevents grain enter the tube during mash in. this part of the system is the biggest flaw as the top of the telescope can slip into the the bottom tube after dough in when you are trying to place the top screen on.

i dont use the top screen and i got a small bazooka filter to screw on top of the tube instead of the adaptor and cap. i got a longer retunr tube and use that to circulate the water above the grain bed right below the air/wort interface. i also use the mashtun as an underletting system placing all the grain in the assembled tun then slowly lowering the tun into the strike water. it is easier this way for many reasons., just maintain a little pressure on the return tube so the false bottom doesnt get pushed up by the water underneath.

the youtube video is very good but i think he said he uses the pump to transfer to the fermenter and the manual specifically says not to use the pump after the boil cause trub can mess it up. it also says not to use it above a certain temp ( i think 160?)

otherwise this has been one of my best homebrewing investments.


https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Device...31&mcid=a6d287bb24ed3b718506ea113c52c6e3&th=1

great price

i think i paid 260

enjoy its a lot of fun it really makes mashing and boiling much easier.

 

[fbztobrew]

Thanks for the detailed response! Looking forward to putting this thing to use over the weekend. Cleaned it today and pretty impressed w the overall quality!

 

[fbztobrew]

Just did my first brew with this and what a treat! Was really smooth sailing. The temp probe was off 3 degrees but was easy to calibrate. Only gripe is I need a better way to transfer the cooled wort to my bucket. I wish I could just pump it out. Getting the spigot to a high enough height was a bit of a challenge for me. Other than that its a fantastic piece of kit for the price! Thanks for all the tips and help!

 

[fluketamer]

yes you cant brew very low on the ground cause that makes the spigot useless and you cant brew too high up cause you have to climb a stool to lower and raise the basket.

ideally would be a 3 foot high stand

but it is a joy to brew with. and easy to clean.

there is a lot of dead space under the basket.

i usually have to put a little over 5 liters in ther at least just to get a decent mash volume for 10 lbs of grain .

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/klarstein-mundschenk.101138/page-3

the klarstein is the same as the vevor as is the brewmonk, guten, brewers edge, hopace etc.