Recent content by beerkench

I've been thinking about trying a food sieve or a large tea strainer. Has anybody tried using this method? The method of letting the trub stand over night sounds interesting too. I'm sure I can get more out of my BM as I am throwing away 2.5L of trub even after a whirlpool and hop stand. If I...

Another Braumeister question chaps: How do you get yours clean? I often find it difficult to getting to the outside of the bottom element rings.

Some of the guys on HBT dump the whole lot in to the FV. I think I will go happy medium and not mind too much if some of the grub gets in. Cheers.

There's always quite a lot of wort left with the trub in the bottom after a Braumeister brew. Do you guys strain it, leave it or do you let it go into your FV?

23 litres in the bottle? Wow. I get 19 if I'm doing a beer over 1.050. Must be something in the water you have down under.

I think the poster meant that as a question to us having efficiency problems.

All you Aussie chaps appear to be getting top efficiency out of your Braumeisters, when I'm only getting around 70-72% total according to Beersmith. I wonder if it's the warm weather you have making it easier on the Braumeister itself (My brew room's around 6 C at the moment). I have a 20L BM...