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I had the best brewday ever yesterday; no issues or dramas at all. The maiden run of my Braumeister!
I think I may have got this idea from a picture that perhaps Schooey had posted somewhere. I am also sure that I got the following idea from him too.
I put some rice hulls in the inverted hoprocket (without the high flow cage) and then a couple of hop plugs. Despite this the hop and trub cone after whirlpooling was the best I have ever witnessed and I would be confident of running the wort straight out of the Braumeister and through the plate chiller. It flowed so well that I had to back it off by partially closing the tap on the Braumeister.
Yes. In fact Braumeister recommend this in the user guide/manual for first use. Think of it as a clean and flush out of any residual grease, dust or grime. I should imagine you probably don't need to run through a whole cycle, just fill it to say 30L with some warm/hot water and give the pump/s a whirl. I had little bits of cardboard emerge during this initial clean.Just wondering if it would be a good idea to do a 'wet' run before you put any grain in?
Yes total amount of water used would be 63L not boil volume. Thank you. I certainly did need an additional 10L above that of mash-in. I thought I was getting an 87% efficiency but had a niggling doubt and checked my refractrometer against cooled boiled water. Yes it was out and I only hit 83% or so!Hmmm, not really! 53L mash-in plus 10L sparge probably equals about 55/56L pre-boil due to grain absorbtion.
Yes you sure could. It is a " female straight (as opposed to tapered) socket on the Braumeister. I thought the original tap looked like it was a very small bore so I replaced it with a "-1/2" nipple and then a " 3 piece full bore tap.slow leak on tap, 20L version - could I just replace this with a standard ball valve?
I think I may have got this idea from a picture that perhaps Schooey had posted somewhere. I am also sure that I got the following idea from him too.
I put some rice hulls in the inverted hoprocket (without the high flow cage) and then a couple of hop plugs. Despite this the hop and trub cone after whirlpooling was the best I have ever witnessed and I would be confident of running the wort straight out of the Braumeister and through the plate chiller. It flowed so well that I had to back it off by partially closing the tap on the Braumeister.