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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...

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...

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...