[QUOTE=”takai, post: 1317665, member: 38312″]Inaugural brew went pretty much flawlessly and I hit all of my numbers pretty much dead on.
Mashed in:
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Malt pipe out and draining/raining:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/37546-2/20150916-133213-iPhone.JPG[/IMG]
Chilling and hop spider draining post boil:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/37551-2/20150916-133213-iPhone_001.JPG[/IMG]
Built up a good rolling boil throughout, and boil off was spot on calculations.
Only a couple of niggles, the main one being that i forgot to turn the pump off at the end of the chilling process, so it kept the trub in suspension for longer and didnt form as nice a cone. The other is that the drainage rack can get caught on the legs and that just makes a bit of a mess, plus i dont have anywhere to put it for draining anymore as it is larger than the bucket i used to use.
All of that is simple to fix. The only other thing im considering is putting a short length of drilled pipe on the end of the malt pipe feed so that it distributes more evenly around the malt pipe. Thoughts on that, is it worth it?[/QUOTE]