BroomVikin
Well-Known Member
Alright I finally got around to using this thing for the first time today (political season keeps you on the road a lot at CNN!) and I have a few observations/ questions. 1) I way over shot my mash temps. Not sure how it happened since I used Beer Smith and it's always been dead on before. After a few ice packs from the freezer and vigorous stirring not that big of a deal after all. 2) I definitely ran into the "pump drains the kettle faster than the grain bed allows wort to pass back through" problem. I have already ordered a mini ball valve to slow the output of the pump next go 'round and hopefully solve the problem. 3) Lots of foam but I'm attributing this to the fast flow out, slow flow in issue. Strange thing was it was really light fluffy foam and not the dense stuff that seems to have been discussed here. 4) This could certainly be user error but when I set the timer to 9000 on the PID it counts down 100 seconds per minute. This obviously isn't correct. Do I need to calculate how many seconds in a 90 mash/ boil and input that number or is there a setting somewhere to make it jump to 60 seconds after it reaches 00?
All in all I think I'm really going to like it once I get the bugs worked out but it certainly isn't plug and play right out of the box. There's a learning curve for sure.
All in all I think I'm really going to like it once I get the bugs worked out but it certainly isn't plug and play right out of the box. There's a learning curve for sure.