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Actually wouldn't even need the second herms just able to pump water between the two.

Electrically a second switch coming off after the HLT selected side of the 3 way element switch that will give you the option of selecting the HLT or the 4th vessel (Small Herms vessel). But controlling a 4th vessel with olny 3 pids is a bit more tricky. ???. Just maybe there could be a idea of...

Yes. Its no good. Just let it drain off in a bucket or sink and discard the grain. Remaining wort below 1.010 will be full of hash tannins.

You keep the water level an inch above the grain bed, as you fly sparge while draining into the boil at the same time. The idea here is to avoid compacting the grain bed by draining the water out or too fast and also maximizing all the sugars extracted. When you know your equipment you should be...

The answer is yes, each to their own but you should stop sparging around the 1.010 mark as a max cut off. If SG still too high directly add water to the boil without going through the grain bed. To help out with efficiency, little things like pumping some sparge water through the herms to regain...

Any more news, who is going to distribute these in Australia and when

sorry for the slow reply. How did you go, did you end up getting the mash and boil tun. Yes the boil tun is 95 litres

First brew day

Hi Mate I myself am looking at a couple of smart pid's, there a wifi pid controller and might be an idea for your setup. My project is to control 2 brewtech unitank fermenters using there heat pad and pump that will live in a glycol chiller. here is a link for what I'm looking at, I've made...

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I've just finished building the setup. I had the grainfather already and was looking to expand. So when brewing larger batches the grainfather turns into a herms system for the insulated ss brewtech mash tun, a HLT for sparging, second pump and temp control. I've tested the herms setup and it...

I had issues with mind. I bought the grainfather chiller and two fermenters. After receiving the chiller and going through the setup process. The chiller failed and burnt out. So I returned the whole lot. Customer service is pretty good and I may of just been unlucky. But i now went with two ss...