Saving time/overnight mashing.

[Moad]

Well I hit targets exactly, no extra efficiency gained but I did brew this as a "concentrated" no chill so didn't have the same ratio of sparge water to strike water as I normally would.

Combined with no chill it made for an extremely efficient brew day and will definitely be running it again...regularly.

 

[Moad]

Setting this up again tonight reminded me of this thread. I think my beers came out a little drier but I'm pleased with everything I've brewed using this method so far. This with no chill has cut brew days right down for me. Considering it took me 3 hours to prep the brewery and mill grain, any time saving is welcome

 

[Coldspace]

Yeah , I've been time poor last 7 month, work, family......
This has saved my marriage lol and works good enough for most of my staples.
Setup, mash in fri night, boil, hops cube first up sat morning. Done....

 

[Lionman]

The Brewie looks like a good machine for time poor home brewers.

 

[damoninja]

FWIW, I don't particularly try to shave time off of my brew day but I do it where I can without modifying my processes.

One thing that I have done is fill up my electric HLT with water and place it on a timer so it comes on a few hours before I wake up in the morning, strike water being ready to go, I mash in and I'm away. Gas will heat a lot faster, but electric completely shaves the time away all together.

Mash in, I get my sparge water heating, hops ready, fementer sanitised, pump cleaned, chiller prepped before boil time.