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That's a great idea if it works well. Does your efficiency take a hit? Also, my tap water is quite hard. Would that matter when sparging?

Yea, I am quite puzzled too. Mostly because I've done 3 brews since and every single time I get different numbers and can't figure out what's wrong. It's driving me crazy because I never had problems calibrating my gear before. I might switch back to sparging and try doing a cold water sparge...

I mill it myself. I have a two-roller malt mill (see photo) that has always worked fine, so I doubt it's that.

Hey Pete, Have you tried doing the full volume, no-sparge method? I've recently switched to this (Grainfather BIAB I guess?) for the same reasons you mentioned (time and space). Although much more practical, after a few brews, I am missing my numbers by a big margin. That was never the case...

Hi all, I've been brewing on a Grainfather for about two years with great success and recently decided to switch to a BIAB, no-sparge method to save time and space (new baby, busy with work, etc). Although it works fine, I am having trouble hitting my target numbers and dialling in a reliable...

Super. Lots of great information here. I'll play around with it and let you guys know if I run into any trouble. Thanks a bunch!

Cool, great to hear it's working for you! Is your mini regulator attached to the CO2 tank or to the keg? Hose out of the keg into the regulator? What connectors are you using? Sorry if these are all obvious questions. Hopefully someone else has tried to connect it to multiple kegs and can give...

Hi guys, I have never kegged before and have no experience with pressurising other than bottling. I just managed to get my hands on 4 cheap 5L mini kegs (see picture below) with mini regulators for 16g threaded CO2 cartridges. The keg doesn't have ball lock disconnects. Instead of buying the...

Hi guys, I brewed a blonde last Sunday (3 days ago) and pitched on top of a yeast cake (1st gen) from another batch. It has been bubbling away nicely on primary. I just found out that I'll have to leave town for over 2 weeks this coming Friday. I was wondering if I should transfer to secondary...

Hello Grainfather users, I just got a unit and have a few questions about using the pump. Since there's no tap, all the liquid in the unit needs to be pumped out (or dumped) after usage. I was wondering if when pumping liquid out, one should be careful that the pump doesn't run dry. Say, if I...

Thanks for the input so far! I thought the sourness came from the Orval somehow, but good to know it doesn't. I was away for a while when the beer was ageing and my girlfriend was (reluctantly) 'taking care' of it. It could be that the airlock ran dry for a little while. On the bottling day, I...

Hi guys, A while back I had my first attempt at making a beer with something other than saccharomyces. I brewed the BYO Orval clone, got two fresh bottles of Orval and pitched the dregs to secondary. Everything went really well and I left it alone for about 5 months. I then went to taste it and...