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Hello all!
I've been all grain brewing for about 2 years now, primarily single infusion mashes. I recently created/converted a 15.5 gallon keggle to use for mashing 10 gallon batches, but figured I had everything I need to do a direct fired RIMS setup.
The keggle has a false bottom, so my grain isn't sitting directly on the bottom. I've heated my strike water in my BK as usual, and pump it into the keggle/MT.
The particular recipe I was going for called for step infusion going from 122 to 152 in supposedly 15 minutes.
Once I mix up the grain, I start recirculating, and when everything is flowing good, I gently apply the heat. It seems to take a long time to get from 122f to 155f, much longer then 15 minutes.
I just kept the heat on probably medium/medium low. anything lower would blow the flame out of the darkstar burner. (This year santa's going to bring me a second burner for my top tier)
What ends up happening is basically around 144ish the wort seems to stop flowing, so I kill the flame, and get it pumping again, then apply the heat again. as soon as the heat runs again for a minute or so, it stops again.
I ended up abandoning the recirculation, and just stirring until I got to 155. Same with the issue with the mashout.
My grist was just 14lbs maris otter...20 quarts of strike water.
Should I have used a thinner mash? Or just be more patient?
I did find the darkstar burner was a bit irritating because even in the slightest wind it would blow out, so maybe the flame could've been lower, im not sure. I was heating up my sparge/cleaning water in my main bk, so I didn't want to shuffle things around.
Any idea why it would do this? Or how I could stop it from doing this next batch?
Thanks!
I've been all grain brewing for about 2 years now, primarily single infusion mashes. I recently created/converted a 15.5 gallon keggle to use for mashing 10 gallon batches, but figured I had everything I need to do a direct fired RIMS setup.
The keggle has a false bottom, so my grain isn't sitting directly on the bottom. I've heated my strike water in my BK as usual, and pump it into the keggle/MT.
The particular recipe I was going for called for step infusion going from 122 to 152 in supposedly 15 minutes.
Once I mix up the grain, I start recirculating, and when everything is flowing good, I gently apply the heat. It seems to take a long time to get from 122f to 155f, much longer then 15 minutes.
I just kept the heat on probably medium/medium low. anything lower would blow the flame out of the darkstar burner. (This year santa's going to bring me a second burner for my top tier)
What ends up happening is basically around 144ish the wort seems to stop flowing, so I kill the flame, and get it pumping again, then apply the heat again. as soon as the heat runs again for a minute or so, it stops again.
I ended up abandoning the recirculation, and just stirring until I got to 155. Same with the issue with the mashout.
My grist was just 14lbs maris otter...20 quarts of strike water.
Should I have used a thinner mash? Or just be more patient?
I did find the darkstar burner was a bit irritating because even in the slightest wind it would blow out, so maybe the flame could've been lower, im not sure. I was heating up my sparge/cleaning water in my main bk, so I didn't want to shuffle things around.
Any idea why it would do this? Or how I could stop it from doing this next batch?
Thanks!