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I think it looks solid as is. My only suggestions would be to swap the chocolate for a British pale chocolate since I like that better in a bitter. I’m an EKG fan so I would go all EKG and if you’re not limited to dry yeast I would say go for wyeast1469 West Yorkshire.

I am tempted to buy a second beer engine now…..Angrams are nice. I like that they’re still in business so you could get replacement parts if needed. My old Higene isn’t made anymore so I have to contact RLBS and hope they have what I need

That’s a good point, something to definitely consider. Heating to boil already takes a heck of a long time, that’s the only drawback to the 110V system I have. Maybe someday I’ll be able to bump up to 220V but that’s a ways away

This makes a lot of sense, it is very different for sure. As Rudy mentioned, the AIO’s do have their limitations. Process wise I’m not basing it on the cooler days. Mainly focusing on the difference in quality in end product between the two.

One issue I need to address is my vessel for heating sparge water, it can’t accommodate much more than 2 gallons unfortunately. I’ll have to see if my malt pip fits into my anvil bucket. Only problem being I would need to use said bucket for fermentation. Unless I break out my all rounder but I...

Yes I do sparge. Generally I mash in with 6.5 gallons and sparge with 2 gallons. I’ve thought about retooling these numbers but I have been getting the consistent 1.050 OG with this approach. I was thinking my volumes may be on the high end, I used to err towards slightly higher wort production...

In the cooler setup I typically did single infusion with mashout except for one time I did a double decoction which turned out to be the best hefeweizen I have yet brewed. In the Robobrew I did single infusions at 150 for the first 2 batches and the last one I did a hochkurz step mash 145 for...

Not scientifically, but yeah I did. In my old cooler setup I was using 11lbs of grain getting an OG of 1.055 or thereabouts. With the robobrew, I typically hit an OG of 1.050-1.054 with 12lbs of grain, so I adjusted my recipe up to 12lbs of grain but got OGs of 1.040-1.044 for the Hefeweizen

So is the key to use less or no rice hulls?

I was thinking crush could be a culprit since the last attempt was before I got my 2 roller mill and didn’t feel like hand cranking my corona mill. Of the 3 batches, 2 were crushed by the shop once by corona. I could try double crushing the wheat perhaps so as not to fiddle with my mill gap...

I’ve mentioned this in a few other posts but since getting my robobrew/brewzilla several years ago I have not had success brewing a Hefeweizen on the system. I’ve tried 3 times and always ended up with horrible efficiency and just underwhelming thin results. Contrast this with my old cooler...

I had an off efficiency day recently on my Brewzilla as well but I think I’ve isolated the culprit. How was the crush on your wheat malt? I wonder if part of your issue is there. I’ve never had good luck with wheat beers on the Brewzilla, every time I’ve tried I’ve gotten very poor efficiency...

It’s a worthwhile project! I think beer engines look really cool too, so great functional/decorative feature to a home bar. I wish I was handier and could’ve made something that looked a bit nicer but it works for what it is. I was scrolling through my old pictures and I found the picture I...

I had thought about trying that a long time ago but never summed up the courage! Curious to see how it turns out. Is the sterilite food safe?

Vienna lager definitely sounds like a good idea heading into summer - if you go 100% Vienna malt it’ll come out nice and toasty/malty without being over the top. Still a quencher for the summer heat. @jdauria I didn’t realize white labs released anything besides wlp001 in dry form, pretty...