Truman42
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Morning Gents,
Had my first run of my new 3v herms system last night and it wasn't without its problems.
First up, those 1/2 inch camlock fittings are useless. The barb on the female was too restrictive and I had to switch over to standard tail barbs to allow my mash to recirculate. Then my herm it pump stopped working right at mash out so I had to put my urn on the floor and drain by gravity then lift it back up to my brew stand. Then **** me if the pump didnt start working again...Do they have some sort of temp overload cut out?
Anyway, I had a batch size of 18 litres put into brew mate. In the brew day section it told me to strike with 12 litres of water, which I did. I recirculated during the stepped mash and everything was fine. At mash out I pumped into the kettle but only ended up with 2-3 litres. (It was just over the outlet).
Then I added 14.5 litres from my HLT to the mash and recirculated that for a 15 min batch sparge then added that to my kettle. This took the kettle volume up to 18 litres which was well short of what I expected it to be. So I had to heat up some more water in my HLT and do a second spage just to get the volumes up to around 24 litres.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here?
Heres a screen shot of brew day notes.
Had my first run of my new 3v herms system last night and it wasn't without its problems.
First up, those 1/2 inch camlock fittings are useless. The barb on the female was too restrictive and I had to switch over to standard tail barbs to allow my mash to recirculate. Then my herm it pump stopped working right at mash out so I had to put my urn on the floor and drain by gravity then lift it back up to my brew stand. Then **** me if the pump didnt start working again...Do they have some sort of temp overload cut out?
Anyway, I had a batch size of 18 litres put into brew mate. In the brew day section it told me to strike with 12 litres of water, which I did. I recirculated during the stepped mash and everything was fine. At mash out I pumped into the kettle but only ended up with 2-3 litres. (It was just over the outlet).
Then I added 14.5 litres from my HLT to the mash and recirculated that for a 15 min batch sparge then added that to my kettle. This took the kettle volume up to 18 litres which was well short of what I expected it to be. So I had to heat up some more water in my HLT and do a second spage just to get the volumes up to around 24 litres.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here?
Heres a screen shot of brew day notes.