arfenarf
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The topic came up before and I came across a youtube video of a guy that had done it. You might be able to contact him directly for details.
Thanks so much!
The topic came up before and I came across a youtube video of a guy that had done it. You might be able to contact him directly for details.
Just want to say again this setup is amazing, you should ask buy it, no joke. Amazing with a side of easy amazing balls.
Grab that base I posted awhile back and this thing is just amazing.
Well, after nearly 25 years of home brewing, I took a leap of faith and bought The Grainfather, Graincoat and Sparge water heater. I've been following this post for quite some time and decided to pull the trigger (on the big auction site) last week.
I have been brewing on a 10-15 gallon 3 tier system with RIMS for many years and decided I wanted to come out of the garage, move into the kitchen, simplify my brewday and mostly speed up my clean up.
After experimenting with equipment, ingredients, water profiles, PH adjustment, recipes, mash profiles, etc, I have just decided I want to brew the beers my family and friends love to drink and The Grainfather seemed to be a nice and easy way to enjoy home brewing with much less work.
I just got her (or maybe it is him) assembled and am running the PBW through as instructed. I can't wait to do a test run this weekend! We're going to brew my wife's favorite beer, a home concocted Session Citra Pale Ale.
We're pretty flipping excited!! :rockin:
By chance, does anybody have the page number where someone posted the Beersmith settings for the grainfather. I think it was an attachment. I've been searching for it but can't find it. Thanks in advance.
You guys rock! Thank you both.
Got mine today. Did a cleaning run and ready to brew tomorrow.
I never add more water.... Adjust your pump return valve to control flow. My last dozen brew I have not sent a drop down the overflow.
Enjoy! Let us know how it goes.
I'l be brewing 3 gallons sweet stout tomorrow. Still waiting on that micro pipework to get back in stock...so just going to have to add more mash water for now.
Adjust your pump return valve to control flow. My last dozen brew I have not sent a drop down the overflow.
IMHO that's adding un-nessesary complexity to the process, nothing wrong with the overflow being used. The amount of wort going into the overflow will reduce to usually nothing as the mash goes on so it's going to need adjusting along the way.
Occasionally I will get some grain down the overflow, last time I was a bit keen pushing the top plate down to start lautering and the stuff that had collected on top went down, in this case I just put a strainer under the pump outlet and caught it while it was coming to the boil. If you have a hop spider this would also be fine, a few bits of grain isn't going to make any noticible difference anyway.
On the topic of hop spiders, I'd not felt the need for one until yesterday
just started boiling my first batch. i'm noticing a LOT of husks in the boil, at lease more than i got with my cooler mash tun with braid in it. I've scraped about a good 2 cups worth of proteins. i'm wondering if this is normal for the system or if i made a mistake. when circulating the mash i saw some husk though it seemed like very thing circulated well. I did remove the ball valve since i heard it gets clogged a lot. any ideas?
I still think your getting most of the grain in the boil from grain getting though the bottom plate on the mash tun section. I posted sometime ago how built a triple false bottom. Works perfectly now.
Awhile back in this thread, someone posted a sink strainer over the overflow pipe. I bought one and it keeps the husks out of the boiler. $2 fix.
I doubt many grains are getting through the bottom or top plate. If so then the crush is too fine but doubt that's it.
Have a picture on the amount of grain? I get some but not a lot at all.
I posted three files on March 24 -- p. 124 of this thread -- https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=550870&page=124 -- that should help. Read the entire pdf-file and make all three sets of changes, and you should get fairly closel
I noticed on this beersmith profile that you have your final batch volume set to 6 gallons versus the typical 5. Is there a reason or do you bottle 6 gallons when you brew, typically?
I posted three files on March 24 -- p. 124 of this thread -- https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=550870&page=124 -- that should help. Read the entire pdf-file and make all three sets of changes, and you should get fairly closel
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