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Just saw the pump you're using... little brown has only 0.3 bar I think, prob not even an issue.

Should the throttle valve not be closer to the pump discharge? Otherwise you're putting unnecessary stress on all the piping between the throttle valve and the pump discharge. Especially if your silicon tubing isn't rated to the pump head at sparge temp. Just worth checking to save a bursted...

This is going to depend totally on the yeast you've used. Constable Copper is an ale, but you're using a lager base extract. However that alone won't make it a lager. The hop characteristics you're aiming for with that bill suggest you'll want an ale yeast to balance them. In which case you'll...

I do have a screw clamp there, but you're right, maybe it's not applying equal pressure around the silicon tube to seal it. It's a possibility, and I'll investigate it. Cheers Adr, this is all good advice. I think I will mess with the plumbing on the suction side, as I've always suspected it's...

My suction pipe is all negative gradient, but it's not close to vertical at all, as the elevation difference of my MLT outlet to the pump suction is only about 30cm. As said above, will post some pics after next brewday, and also will try (a) not stirring and (b) evenly distributing returning...

No pics which show the pump and piping set-up. I can take some next brewday and post them in this thread.

I have this pump, which sounds similar to your Mofox. Not sure how to keep a higher waterlevel in the MLT as I'd have to go above my 3L/kg that I like for my mash. Perhaps the answer lies in evenly distributing the returning wort across the grain bed, and not stirring as often as I do. I...

To start, I've had a look here and not found an answer (though it was hard trawling through 63 pages). I've had a problem a couple of times during my mash cycle of getting air into my recirc lines - particularly between the MLT and the pump suction. I prime my pump and the cycle starts no...

Ahh makes sense. I operate pretty similarly in fact

Looks good. But why all the quick disconnect couplings? Looks like your valving controls direction of flow, so no need for disconnecting piping.

Be careful with this advice, try it, but be careful. My fermenters that use an O-ring and lid (like this one) sometimes don't seal when I overtighten them. It is due to the O-ring buckling very slightly when it is super tight. To get it to seal, I can sometimes loosen the lid a little and let...

Update: Opened the first bottle of this stuff, tastes mellow and smooth, with a hint of heat from the alcohol. Thought I don't think the ca. 8%v/v alcohol content is there. Seems like a lot of those long chain sugars contributed to gravity but not to EtOH conversion which explains the big body...

Just installed the world's simplest control panel right there.

He'll probably live to 120 too. Sounds like some herbal medicine sheeez.

If you opened your old stand-up fridge with your face at the bottom you'd probably also have the same effect as all the heavier CO2 rushes out the bottom when you open the door.