I read a thread a few weeks ago suggesting a boil-off rate of around 6%. I have looked for this thread but cannot find it. If I could I would have responded to that thread. Anyway I used to set my 5500 Watt controller to 65% and had a boil-off rate of 22% (1.5 gallons). I have tried 3 batches so far with a lower boil-off rate and have achieved a boil-rate of around 10-12% at a setting of 25-30% power, I'm still trying to tweak the process. I do see evaporation but it more like a simmer. I guess that's expected. What I did not expect is that I am seeing gelatinous clumps of something on my wort chiller, there are also smaller chucks on the waterline (wortline) of my brew kettle. Does anybody know what this is and is it normal?
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