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Tossing in my EOY summary too! APA: 22 Irish Red 16.5 NE IPA 16.5 Special Bitter: 22 IPA: 27.5 Light Lager: 22 Oktoberfest: 11 Cali Common: 22 Weissbier 11 Total 170.5 9071.5 + 170.5 gal 9242

How about Order of magnitude or Slow Learner :)

I'm a Grainfather user here, so not sure if that changes the context or not vs a BIAB(asket) setup, but I typically do: ~5 Gal strike water ~3 Gal sparge I target an initial boil volume of 27L, and mostly adjust the sparge amount to hit that as most of my grain bills are in the 10-12lb range...

There are quite a few handy calculators at Brewers Friend (linked in the top toolbar "Brewing Software". This is the one for ABV: https://www.brewersfriend.com/allgrain-ogfg/ There are also quite a few spreadsheet based ones as Vike mentioned, and of course Beersmith

I feel for ya man, I've had those days! Specifically on the Grainfather bottom plate thing: I've had decent luck with putting the silicone ring on the plate and then just shoving the whole thing into the dry grains and spinning it around. It gets a coating of grain dust that helps the whole...

I use a small piece of 2x4 to prop up the side of the keg below the liquid post, so it's tilted ~20-30 degrees towards the gas post. Then I attach a gas connector+ small piece of hose to the gas post (run it into small jar or bucket) rather than using the pressure relief valve. I then fill the...

What's the rest of the grain bill? If you're using flaked wheat it is unmalted and doesn't contain amalyse enzymes, which means you're relying on the rest of the grain bill to provide the required enzymatic power. I've seen using 6-row instead of 2-row recommended for bills up to 50% flaked...

Ahh gotcha, I thought maybe it was a partial mash with just the crystal malts.

Two things that come to mind for me: What was your mash temp? May have had a little extra sweetness coming through with a higher mash temp? Two pounds of cara/crystal malt with such an otherwise light grain bill seems on the high side, and these can add a distinctly sweet flavor. Have you...

I totally missed that in the tags, thanks!

Was it an all grain batch or extract? The formula RPh_Guy posted is correct for extract, honey, etc if you are just adding sugars into the boil, where the assumption is 100% 'mash' efficiency. For an all grain batch, you need to figure in your typical efficiency to get closer to the real...

Just to ask the obligatory question: Was your final gravity reading with a hydrometer or refractometer? If it was a refractometer, did you correct for alcohol presence? 1.025 FG is right around the reading I get for a few beers using US05 without correcting for alcohol. If you didn't, your...

Thanks @day_trippr - I installed as per the link, restarted the Pi and even removed and readded the controller, but still getting the same error.

Hi all! I wanted to say a quick thank you to Thorrak and everyone here :) I got my setup running with the IoT Relay and it's working like a champ - automated lager fermentation profiles, here I come! Really cool, and I now that I've put a basic setup together I can really appreciate the...

As far as I know, there is no minimum pressure to open the poppets, they are depressed when the connector snaps on. Keep in mind the liquid post is normally for pushing liquid out and have 0 (actually negative) pressure pushing them down when serving. As a quick sanity check: Are you opening...