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My prize arrived just now by DHL - thanks Inkbird!

I bought one of these and use it as an HLT. It came with a bag and false bottom included so you probably could use for full BIAB process. The temperature reading is pretty accurate and this new version is double-skinned so it should maintain temp pretty well too. One thing to note (as in the...

Wow - I won. Thanks Inkbird :) I've messaged my details as requested - cheers!

I was about to order an Elitech STC-1000, so would like an Inkbird ITC-1000 for free instead :D

I often drink Carling Cold at gigs, because you can drink loads of it and not fall over. Would never order it in a pub though - its pointless.

I saw a Youtube video where someone "bent" the freezer compartment out of the way. I'll see if I can find it..... EDIT: Yup, found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1CGpXKbO5k

It's basically the same as the Grainfather, so the mash tun is basically a basket inside the boil kettle. It's like a metal BIAB setup. I mashed (and sparged) according to the Beersmith settings in the opening post. Yes - grain was fresh and pre-crushed by The Malt Miller.

+1 I haven't even ordered one and I'm excited!

I'm drinking my first all-grain brew "Bitter to the end". It's a lot better than I thought it was going to be when I tried it a week ago. It's not bad at all at 3 weeks old.

Grain arrived a few days ago from the Malt Miller and I adjusted Beersmith with EBC and potential SG values etc from the Malt Miller website. So I think that should have been OK.

I tried a very expensive raspberry beer in Belgium once. It was so bad the missus liked it. Yuk.

That would make sense - yes. Then it applies your equipments estimated efficiency to calculate your OG I suppose. I'm out for the next couple of days, but after that I shall see what I can learn about how it all works.

You can set the Brewhouse efficiency, but not the Mash efficiency it seems but from what I am reading one does affect the other. I found some forum discussions on the topic which I shall have to read through - which is cool. I want to learn :)

Ha! I just opened another bottle, been in the fridge a few days and it had a head! Not for long like, it was gone in 30 seconds - but I captured the moment for posterity! For some reason the pint is sideways, but you get the idea!

I might well give that a go!

The grain came pre-crushed from The Malt Miller, so I'm pretty sure it would have been done right (a lot of people swear by them I think). I can't see anywhere in Beersmith to enter the mash efficiency - it seems to be calculating it somehow (or I'm too much of a noob to figure it out). I...

I've not made any water adjustments to date, and yes I do sparge. I've attached the mash profile I followed today. I've also attached the Equipment Profile I'm using, which I gather lots of ACE users are having no problems with (I assume it should be the same for everyone?). I'm now wondering...

I've just completed my third ever all-grain brew, all three having been done with an ACE Microbrewery and an irritating pattern is starting to form already. On all three brews, my pre-boil gravity has been way lower than Beersmith predicted (1.034 v 1.043 today) and consequently my OG is low...

I had a crack at Greg Hughes' "Northern Brown Ale" but despite everything seeming to go smoothly, I was well under my pre-boil SG again :( I was aiming at 11 litres to the FV and got about 10.8 - so that seemed to work reasonably well - but something is going wrong with my mashes and I haven't...

That's interesting - maybe I didn't cock it up after all! I'm bottling my second brew tomorrow which is from Greg Hughes' "Spring Beer" - so hopefully that'll be a bit better. But I'll start chucking a bit of flaked barley in from now on I think, as I do like a decent head on me beer.