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It is at serving temp. I intend to serve at 6 degrees. I usually leave the tank hooked up at 15psi. I just accidentally knocked the tank over when cleaning the floor and it must have fallen in precisely the wrong way or the regulator was already crap. Both gauges got dented so don't show an...

I have a 19L corny keg full of NEIPA that I wanted to force carb and get drinking quickly. After cooling the keg to 6 degrees I gave it an initial blast of CO2 to 30 psi. As I was shaking the keg, I knocked over the tank and broke my only regulator. It's not easy to buy one where I live so I...

I tasted the beer when it came out of the fermenter and it was great. I cooled it to 4 degrees then I racked it into the keg and force carbonated - about 1 minute at 300kPa, a good few minutes of vigorous shaking later it dropped to 140kPa so left it for an hour. I then tapped the keg and it was...

ok thanks - I'll take some more pics next time. The tun capacity is 200L so I'm brewing 150L batches. Because it's quite tall and there's 7cm of dead space below the mash I wasn't sure if the temperature of wort coming out of the bottom would be an accurate reflection of the actual mash temp...

Firstly, thanks everyone for your help and suggestions. Progress is being made - I brewed another batch yesterday and it went more smoothly. So the cooling issue seems sorted - I recirculated through a pump starting 10 minutes before the end of the boil and continued while cooling. When I drew...

@AleForce1 The heater isn't electric, it burns liquified petroleum, so I don't think magnetic interference is the issue, although there could be a problem with the thermometer

@Chrisl77 yes, there is a false bottom

Thanks @dmcman73. I managed to solve the chilling issue but controlling the mash temperature is still a bit challenging. If the temperature throughout the mash can fluctuate the mash how do you maintain control? i.e. how do you know what temperature you're actually mashing at? Would you...

@spellman what do you mean by having the temperature probe in line with the pump? Just have the thermometer on the outlet going into the pump? I tried using a pump to recirculate last time but that resulted in big (+-15 degrees fluctuations on the thermometer).

How about recirculating the wort from bottom to top using a pump?

So you reckon stirring continuously while mashing will effectively maintain the temperature and prevent those crazy fluctuations on the thermometer?

I'm testing out a brand new 200L system and found a couple of potentially disastrous but potentially easy-to-fix issues: 1) While mashing the temperature indicated on the thermometer which sits near the bottom of the tun was fluctuating wildly between 60 and 70 degrees. It might go from 62...

Are you sure it's rust? I found what looked like rust on the welded parts of my brand new 304 stainless hot liquor tun last week. It turned out to be chloradine - a red-coloured deposit that results from water that contains high levels of chlorides. If the water sits in the tun for a while (e.g...

If you get those 500g packs of dried yeast, what's the best way to keep it sterile? I've had one before and after opening just kept it tightly wrapped in a sealable sandwich bag at the back of the fridge without any issue. Just worried this might not be the best method. There are no liquid...

Hopefully this will do the job for now - I've sewed a few layers of muslin cloth around the edge of the FB. It shouldn't soak up too much wort but may only last a few brews.

Thanks Jaybird. Do you do custom sizes? And ship to China? <:) My false bottom is 65mm tall and the inside diameter of the tun is 565mm I'm gonna try again on Monday, this time a full batch with a heavier/taller grain bed, with a ring of muslin cloth around the edge of the false bottom...

Thanks. Silicon tubing is hard to come by here to i'll try and plug up the gap with a ring of rolled up muslin. The gap around the edge is 4-5mm all the way around. Here are more pics of the tun:

I just have these pictures for now, will take some photos of the mash tun today. Clogged outlet: False Bottom:

Hi all, I've upgraded from a 20L homebrew system to a 200L system and used it for the first time the other day. I previously did boil-in-the-bag but for my new system I have a false bottom. For my first test I decided to try a half-batch. The problem was that several kilos of grain managed to...

great, thanks. Next time I'll try grinding smaller and controlling the amount of water.