New Sabco user here and I love it so far, but have a few questions.
One thing that was slightly different was the instructions telling you to fill your mash tun up to the false bottom, then add your grain, then let the water fill the rest of the way until it's an inch over the grain bed. This differs from how I was typically doing it where I would actually measure the amount of water being used so you could have 1.25 qts/lb, 1.5 qts/lb, etc etc. Does anyone measure the amount of water being used with their Brew Magic or do you just let the water cover the grain like they say and go from there?
I have also had problems with the grain bed rising during the sparge. Not sure what's going on, but it rises every single time no matter what I do. I still seem to get fairly good efficiency, but was hoping to dial this in somehow. Anyone else experience this?
Finally, this may or may not be related to the grain bed issue, but during the sparge we seem to have bubbles coming up through the flexible piping and into the whirlpool during the sparge. We seemed to have gotten it fixed when we tore the whole thing apart, cleaned everything and tightened all the compression fittings and on/off valves. But then on the very next batch it started happening again. Is there something I might be missing here that's causing air to get sucked up in?
Thank you in advance for taking the time to help us!
One thing that was slightly different was the instructions telling you to fill your mash tun up to the false bottom, then add your grain, then let the water fill the rest of the way until it's an inch over the grain bed. This differs from how I was typically doing it where I would actually measure the amount of water being used so you could have 1.25 qts/lb, 1.5 qts/lb, etc etc. Does anyone measure the amount of water being used with their Brew Magic or do you just let the water cover the grain like they say and go from there?
I have also had problems with the grain bed rising during the sparge. Not sure what's going on, but it rises every single time no matter what I do. I still seem to get fairly good efficiency, but was hoping to dial this in somehow. Anyone else experience this?
Finally, this may or may not be related to the grain bed issue, but during the sparge we seem to have bubbles coming up through the flexible piping and into the whirlpool during the sparge. We seemed to have gotten it fixed when we tore the whole thing apart, cleaned everything and tightened all the compression fittings and on/off valves. But then on the very next batch it started happening again. Is there something I might be missing here that's causing air to get sucked up in?
Thank you in advance for taking the time to help us!