Recent content by dzimm27

I brew with gluten free grains (for my wife who is celiac) so I need to add additional enzymes as I brew. My older school gluten free doctrine had an initial gelatinization/cereal mash at 190 with Termamyl L, then drop to 145 and add Ondea Pro and SEBAmyl L, then raise up to 190 again. This...

Well, my initial goal was to be able to do a temp drop during mash - which I can definitely achieve quickly with the counterflow chiller. Without it (now that I have it), anything but CFC would be too slow! It is so FAST!

The rear seal never loses seating until the knob/bullet portion is forcibly pulled from the rest of the valve, regardless of how far it is unscrewed, so that seal is intact. Flow in one direction or the other would not make a difference considering it manages to not leak when under pump...

Right... see that visible gap in my photo? Water/wort will pass through there. Guarantee it :) Maybe more turbulence if used backwards (which - who cares about), but this is not a one way fluid gate, it's an open/shut valve. You could use in either direction.

Maybe they pulled the clips off of them to stop people like me from asking for "working as originally designed" models. No way they would offer free replacements for an entire production run. They apparently weren't aware of the issue until I brought it up. Sigh. My desire for proper working...

The one on the Riptide the clip serves to stop the valve from being unscrewed too far and removed, basically stopping the knob from unscrewing past their designated "full open" position. On the TC linear valve version, the flawed design means the clip has absolutely no purpose except for to get...

This pic is of the riptide pump head with the valve opened to where the clip hits the ridge to show how much of the “bullet” edge is still in the flow path. It makes it look more closed off than it really is, but flow would work fine in either direction - however perhaps more ideal if flow...

Sure, see below from what I sent Blichmann over a year ago now. Just emailed them again but I think their support is ghosting me after promising replacements so I wouldn’t return them…and now am past any return window. In the first pic the top is the g2 linear flow valve and the bottom is the...

This looks great. I think you could do without the lower valve on the pump "tee" up to the whirlpool port "tee". Definitely a similar-but-different bypass method. Good point on the slight angle up in the whirlpool port. Probably would help with distributing the chilled wort without affecting...

I honestly need to hook it up without the CFC in line to see the difference in force, but the bottom whirlpool port was pushing water and mixes. Could visibly see it in the water when doing a water test filled to just over the false bottom, but have yet to do one at full boil volume - so speed...

Would love to see it!

Right, gloves would be required for sure, and it's doable for sure. With your 3 way valves I see you are clearly thinking along the same lines of not wanting to have to disconnect if you don't have to. For the temperature drop, will be honest, have never used a CFC before this and have no...

Couple reasons actually: Initially during design of this, I was needing to do a mash schedule that started high, then needed to drop temperature for an enzyme addition/rest before going back to a higher final step temp. I brew gluten free grains and this was the prior mash schedule I would...

Working on final flow setup for my eBIAB system and wanted to throw out something interesting. This is of course based on @Bobby_M 's design (and he did the kettle). I'm enamored with running recirculation through my counterflow chiller until I learn my own hard lesson that this is a bad idea...

I have no open walls to brew "against". Also trying to use one of the two sides of the 2 car garage door track braces (angle iron supports I can just hook my pulley to). ....and force of habit. I think you're right on my open flame brain. I could potentially mount the controller on the right...