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<blockquote data-quote="Slid" data-source="post: 1138706" data-attributes="member: 8572">This sounds much like my experiences with #1 GF. I must have done around half the 186 brews using a method similar to the one you describe - mash and sparge in the GF and then transfer to a separate boiler using a plastic jug (via a BIAB grain bag) boil and then return wort to GF to do the chill cycle to the fermenter. It adds somewhere in the 45-60mins to the brew day but hurts neither efficiencies nor quality of output.As regards the root cause, my thought are:Not cleaning the bottom plate may cause frequent cut-outs resulting in some sort of deterioration in the fail safe cut out mechanism.By passing the fail safe mechanism may be possible - if a tad dangerous.Replacing the failsafe mechanism may be feasible.I have done one brew now on the &quot;new&quot; GF and sort of missed my familiar routine and got worse efficiencies due to the amount of grain debris (not strained out by the BIAB bag on the transfer to secondary boiler) and not being able to strain out the hops (use a hop spider) on the transfer back to the GF.First World problems, eh?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slid, post: 1138706, member: 8572"] This sounds much like my experiences with #1 GF. I must have done around half the 186 brews using a method similar to the one you describe - mash and sparge in the GF and then transfer to a separate boiler using a plastic jug (via a BIAB grain bag) boil and then return wort to GF to do the chill cycle to the fermenter. It adds somewhere in the 45-60mins to the brew day but hurts neither efficiencies nor quality of output. As regards the root cause, my thought are: Not cleaning the bottom plate may cause frequent cut-outs resulting in some sort of deterioration in the fail safe cut out mechanism. By passing the fail safe mechanism may be possible - if a tad dangerous. Replacing the failsafe mechanism may be feasible. I have done one brew now on the "new" GF and sort of missed my familiar routine and got worse efficiencies due to the amount of grain debris (not strained out by the BIAB bag on the transfer to secondary boiler) and not being able to strain out the hops (use a hop spider) on the transfer back to the GF. First World problems, eh? [/QUOTE]

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