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Could this be made as a flat pack,joined as a circle by stainless steel screws ? Much easier to transport and less costly.

I disconect and clean the pump immediately after brewing, but I will open the impeller housing and check.

I made a keg and fermenter cleaner from a small pond pump, a plastic chopping board and a piece of plastic conduit. Works really well and can be used with only 6 litres of your prefered cleaner/sanitizer.

Thanks for taking the time to give your pump a trial. It's hard to imagine that I am losing the volume through my transfer tube,but as Real_beer says, even with my 6.6 litres per minute the mash process is more than adequate and I would probably have to reduce the flow rate if the pump was...

Quite confusing ! I would have thougt the 2 parameters 19 litres at 2.4 metres and 16 at 3.4 metres. The head I am pumping at is just 65 cms, which is also the total length of the transfer tube from pump to mash tun.

14 months old.

My usual mash setup is 20 litres of water,recirculating with ball valves fully open,13 mm inside diameter transfer tube back to mash tun, all this with just water no grain. Timed over 6 cycles into a measuring jug for one minute.

I have just checked my pump rating,the data plate on the pump indicates a flow rate of 16/19 litres per minute, head 2.4 - 3.4 mtrs. The pump is actually pumping...unrestricted, at 6.6 ltrs per minute at a head height of 65 cms. Anyone tested theirs ?

Michael, I'm not convinced that it is as good as Brewmate. I have paid for a one year subscription but will not be renewing. I think that Brewmates simplicity and no chill facility is better than anything else for me. I also have Beersmith, never use it for recipe generation. Hate Brewersfriend...

I think that you need to work backwards to achieve what you are looking for.You are constrained to the boil volume of your 19 litre pot. I think you should aim for no more than 15 litres boil volume,work on 10% boil off to start with. You will probably get 12 litres into fermenter,including...

I like many others on this forum have made one of these... no gas required and easy to make. Uses a beer post so can also be used for cleaning the keg beer outlet.

I made this from voille and a pice of tube, push tube onto fermenter other end into keg...no hops just clear beer !

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Thanks to all who replied. Been very interesting to see how others feel.

I haven't seen a new inovation on this forum for a very long time. What used to be essential reading for me on a daily basis,now has very little to offer. I don't know whether the availability of the Braumeister and the Grainfather have negated the once great inovations conceived on this forum...

The volume of strike water and the size of the heating element will determine the ramp times. The Hermit just controls temperature and time. I mash with a volume of 20 litres, the Hex has 1.7 litres and I get ramp times of approx 1 degree per minute. The pump theoretically pumps at 19 litres...

I made a return pipe using a "T" piece an elbow and a tap...see attached picture. The long pipe goes to the bottom of your outer vessel and the short pipe with the tap into your mash vessel, by adjusting the tap you can keep your pump on full flow, the returning wort either goes into your...

I do not have the experience to comment on the various yeast strains,however, Fermentis claim that their SO4 is the most widely used commercial strain for English type bitters. One of the problems I have when posters make claims with respect to using a particular yeast for a given recipe...

I made the Electric Brewery version on three occasions now. The change that I made was that I used Rolled Rye from the Pantry Man store, prefer this to Rye Malt. Everyone trying this beer thinks it is great.