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Craig Tube Beerlover1983brew Brewmasterben Grainfather Craft beer channel

Yes I have the updated version. I also noticed problems with the ball bearing valve getting stuck/sticky with gunk and reducing flow. My brewhouse efficiency is pretty low so I will try and remove the valve and see what happens. Cheers.

I tasted a bottle of this yesterday after 1 week. It is not fully carbed up yet but it tastes great. Better than the semimash version I did before (which was pretty good). If this improves it will be really fantastic.

I use beersmith and have the app on my tablet. I can design a recipe on my pc and take the tablet into the kitchen with the recipe in the cloud for reference during brewing or look at my recipes wherever I am.

It took over 24 hours to get going, but finished fairly quickly. I fermented at about 18C. The OG was higher than expected at 1.059. I took another reading today and it has stopped at 1.018 - a bit high. It is also paler than the semi mash version I did and tastes a bit sweeter and stronger. It...

After 10 or so weeks since it went into the fermenter this has turned out very nicely. The banana hint has died down a lot. I may do this one again. Very refreshing.

Thanks I will check these out.

I have dry hopped a couple of times, but not every time. The only thing that is consistent as far as I can tell throughout the brews is the tap water.

I get haze with kits, extract, partial mash, all grain. You name it.

I am now 3 months in to home brewing and have been pretty happy so far with my efforts. One thing that seems to happen consistently to my beer is chill haze. Every batch I have brewed has this issue. The beer is crystal clear at room temperature, but put it in the fridge and it goes cloudy...

I did my second AG Grainfather brew. A recipe based on clibit's Amarillo Pale Ale. Went more smoothly than the first one.

Thanks, Clibit. I actually did a full AG last weekend using a Grainfather. I am planning to do a repeat of this partial AG converted to full AG next weekend to compare. I don't think I will be bothering with many more kits. :cheers: Here is the recipe:

This has been in the bottle just over a week. I cracked one open to try and it tastes very good indeed. If it improves it will be fantastic. Much, much better than the 2 straight kits I tried. I don't think this one will last long once it is ready.

It's been in the bottle just over a week. I cracked one open to test. It has a slight banana taste/smell which I assume means it was too warm during fermentation although I don't think it ever went above 24C. It is not undrinkable, but the taste is there. Hopefully it will die down as time goes by.

It took about 20 minutes or so to get the temperature down to 22C which was what was going into the FV.