ManseMasher
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For the volunteers - please put your feedback here!
I would say, how easy/difficult was it to use, what was the efficiency, would you buy one, upsides, downsides? Whatever, thanks for taking part and I hope you enjoyed it! Thanks also to GrainfatherUK for the opportunity - much appreciated.Okay so after a couple of issues with the machine and a couple of emails exchanged with the Grainfather guys I managed to get a couple of brews on this weekend and will be sending one of the two test machines back ready to go out for the next tester. I will get my feedback, as it stands, written up over the next few days but is there anything specific that people would like me to reference?
Yep, reckon you're p****d!! Lucky sod...!!!! I've got to pick up someone from airport, leaving in 5 mins. Otherwise I'ld have been with you!Hi guys,
I own a grainfather.. at this particular moment I'm wasted (as in.. I'm ******) on my latest brew due to the fact Darth Clibit suggesting having a go on the all grain method! :-D (in for a penny, in for a pound)
The grainy is far too effeicient, My recipes say for instance an OG of 1050 but with the grainy are coming out at 1060 for example. I used the calculators on the grainfather website to the letter (or number) but the OG will always be higher. So. I suggest at least another 2 liters of sparge.
great kit though
The grainy is far too effeicient,
I just made another brew using my Grainfather and thought I would just post one small niggle with the Grainfather, when it comes to sanitising the chiller you need to run the boiling wort through it and to do this you are supposed to sit it on top of the Grainfather on the the lid and let the wort recycle from the pump at the bottom and then up and around the chiller and back into the the boiling wort, well each time I have done this due to the extra heat build up under the lid the wort all froths up, not like a hot break but larger bubbles that come out of the hole in the centre of the lid, so then you have to move a boiling hot chiller to take the lid off to stop the frothing coming up and dribbling all over the Grainfather and onto the floor, heres the thing if they made the tube connecting to the pump pipe a bit longer it would be easier to place the chiller next to the Grainfather and not on top of it and that would solve the problem
I am going to take the short hose off and take it to a hose maker to see if they remove the fittings and connect a longer hose to it
I haven't checked but am sure the guy in the video says he extended the pipes as he prefers it not to be on top of the lid. http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=54878
The new models don't have a jubilee clip but have a round plastic ring that is pushed over and this seems to do the job of sealing very well, maybe if you get in touch with Grainfather they can send you a new plastic clip, after all they must of changed to the new plastic clip for a reasonI've done three brews with the grainfather and not had any problems with boil over................yet!. I did get a leak at the tube that connects the pump to the upright pipe, this was caused by the jubilee clip cutting into the silicon tube. I jammed a pipe of plastic pipe on then refitted the small tube, this should work until a new tube arrives which will be secured with a plastic cable tie.
The new models don't have a jubilee clip but have a round plastic ring that is pushed over and this seems to do the job of sealing very well, maybe if you get in touch with Grainfather they can send you a new plastic clip, after all they must of changed to the new plastic clip for a reason
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