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#Beersmith 3 adjust estimated mash efficiency full

I picked this bad boy up from eBay last year, and finally got a chance to hook it up and give it a whirl. The T-10 is supposedly optimized for accuracy during low-flow situations, which made it a perfect choice for my brewing applications. Meet the Neptune T-10 residential water meter. I was getting very close to the answer – now I just needed an accurate way of measuring the water. However, all of this data I gathered did help me find a pretty narrow range for things like grain absorption and evaporation rates. The only thing consistent about my brewing setup was its inconsistency. I used various pitchers and containers to measure but the end result was always the same – small inaccuracies in my measurement methods would add up and I would end up missing my targets completely. Last year I focused on trying to pin down my exact water usage. What is your evaporation rate during the boil? How much water does your grain absorb? What about cooling losses, liquid left in tubes, and deadspaces in kettles and tuns? It’s enough to drive a man mad.

#Beersmith 3 adjust estimated mash efficiency full

When you start doing all grain mashes and full boils, however, you need to back into the amount of water to use, taking all sorts of factors into consideration. When you do partial boils, this problem never rears its head – you brew a few gallons of wort and just top off with water to get to your final volume. The biggest problem I’ve had to date with my brew system is water management.

Again, this is replacing old plastic - however, this time, it’s bittersweet, because it’s my old friend Mr.

The second awesome gift was a SS Brewtech 10G InfusSion mashtun. Really looking forward to using this for the first time! It’s just small enough to fit into my fermentation fridge, so I don’t need to change anything as far as that goes. Finally, I have a real fermentor - easy to clean, easy to sanitize, racking arm, conical bottom for trub/yeast collection, and a thermowell I can use with my temperature controller’s probe to get better fermentation control. The ones I have to keep replacing over and over again. I’m really stoked about this little guy - it replaces the lousy plastic buckets I’ve been using forever, the ones with the lids that have nooks and crannies you can never get the dried krausen out of. The first item is the SS Brewtech Brew Bucket fermentor (Brewmaster Edition). The Hammer bought me some awesome stainless steel gear last year. All remnants of what used to be a very fun hobby.īut, wait! For the first time in a long time, I actually want to brew again! I have ingredients on order for a batch this weekend and a bunch of new equipment I’m dying to break in. I have a refrigerator full of old yeast, a freezer full of hops pellets, and some old recipe kits I haven’t done anything with. I had a few false starts and would make some beer, but my heart wasn’t really in it and it didn’t take much to get me to cancel a brewday. Don’t look at me like that… It’s not like I’ve been out there winning beer competitions and brewing barrel after barrel of delicious homebrew while deliberately leaving you out of the loop.