Well, today's Brewday went very well. Challenger and EKG over a bittering from Herkules (40:30:20). Only cock up was adding the mash water before replacing he hop filter.
Decant water out of GF and into supporting vessel. Hop filter and water replaced.
After the mercifully uneventful brew, I mistakenly unscrewed the ball valve thingy that controls the flow from the pump. The spring was totally bunged up with a hop twig of some sort. No wonder there were some issues on previous brews.
Anyway, the issues with the fine crushed base malt were not so bad today. I started the mash with a very slow flow through the pump and after 20 mins or so, it was clearing through OK, so was able to increase the flow a bit,
Sparge went well and ended up with 25L in the FV. Efficiency in the FV still 65% and OG a fair 1.048.
Decant water out of GF and into supporting vessel. Hop filter and water replaced.
After the mercifully uneventful brew, I mistakenly unscrewed the ball valve thingy that controls the flow from the pump. The spring was totally bunged up with a hop twig of some sort. No wonder there were some issues on previous brews.
Anyway, the issues with the fine crushed base malt were not so bad today. I started the mash with a very slow flow through the pump and after 20 mins or so, it was clearing through OK, so was able to increase the flow a bit,
Sparge went well and ended up with 25L in the FV. Efficiency in the FV still 65% and OG a fair 1.048.