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Answer to question 2 is 4cm. Answer to question 1 below:

All you would have to do to determine this would be to pump water around the system with the 50L malt pipe in place, then top up until the water flows over the tube and the elements are covered, then adjust for malt absorbtion, then measure the amount of water in there. You don't state what...

Yes you need to order the optional short malt pipe for the 50BM to do 20L batches.

Here's a recent Bavarian Hefeweizen :rockin:

Great stuff, they should add this info to their manual. It's easy to identify the outer element plug, just trace the cables.

Does anyone know when mashing, if the BM uses 1 or both heating elements? I'm asking this because when using the 20L malt pipe and the [spiedel] recommended 23 litres of water for the mash, when the mash starts and the pumps begin the level of water outside the mash pipe drops just below the...

I've done it both ways but always crash cooled it anyway, either way has worked for me :ban:

Not used any other finings and I have no knowledge about filtration. I use pre-mixed isinglass liquid and use approx 70ml per 20 litres mixed gently into the fermenter.

Extending the mash to 90 mins appears to be widely recognised to reduce haze. I have also thought about what happens when lifting the malt pipe, an experiment to try would be to sparge the pipe into a separate bucket and compare the runnings with the pre-boil liquid. Gelatin should be mixed...

For my ales (I haven't brewed a lager yet), following fermentation and Diacytl rest (7-14 days) I crash cool the fermenter to 2c and use Polyclar 730, 24 hours later I use isinglass whilst still at 2c then 48 hours later I can rack bright beer to to a cornie for carbonation, I usually bottle...

So next questions would be: What brewing software do you use? What malts are you brewing with? What is your mash schedule? How long is the boil? Do you get hot & cold breaks? Can you see cold break in the kettle when drained? Is your Whirlfloc in date?

So reading through your process it looks like everything you are doing is correct to remove haze, however you did mention that when filtering one of your beers that it came out cloudier. Now...I know nothing about filtering, but I do know that fining and temperature play a large role in the...

My initial question is redundant now as I brewed on Saturday and discovered that the 50 litre BM will hold full pre-boil volume for a 23 litre batch using the short malt pipe (with a 3.5Kg grist anyway), the volume was 35.2 litres and 80% efficiency was achieved and I hit all targets with no...

Hey BM'ers, I am moving from a 3v HERMS to a 50L BM and the first brew in the BM will be a 23L batch. I'm thinking that I could mash with the full volume of water, Beersmith is estimating 37 litres (9.7 gallons) of water (using BM profiles obtained from this great thread), the grain bill will...