re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread

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I just have the mesh hose hooked up to a ball valve. I'm thinking of doing a square manifold, but might just leave it as is

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That's fine. I have the false bottom but the hose is fine too.

time to start planning a Berliner weisse

I've been researching other recipes online and while they are very similar, they also have minor differences

for those of you that have made this, did you use a sour mash or use commercial lacto? How long was your fermentation?

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I actually run my mash through a fine hops bag to make sure I dont get any grains in my boil kettle. As a precaution because I don't know whether I trust any false bottom

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So kind of like a BIAB?

Does this affect your efficiency any?

I've had 1 stuck mash before. Turns out, when i was pouring my grains and mixing, my false bottom was lifted a little, allowing grains into the drain, clogging up the works. Of course, i didn't know this until i ended up dumping the entire batch. I was also unaware that i could have just tranferred everything over to my kettle, disassembled/reassembled, and tried again.

Lesson learned. I triple check to ensure my false bottom is secure to the bottom of the mash tun. I need a new piece of tubing to use as a gasket, though. The tubing i use, gets flimsy when it gets hot, and sooner or later it will get dislodged, unless i take some stainless wire and braid it through the false bottom opening, and around the tubing gasket.

Oh, and i will be tasting my 3rd Prime IPA today for the first time. Excited about this one.

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I've had 1 stuck mash before. Turns out, when i was pouring my grains and mixing, my false bottom was lifted a little, allowing grains into the drain, clogging up the works. Of course, i didn't know this until i ended up dumping the entire batch. I was also unaware that i could have just tranferred everything over to my kettle, disassembled/reassembled, and tried again.

Lesson learned. I triple check to ensure my false bottom is secure to the bottom of the mash tun. I need a new piece of tubing to use as a gasket, though. The tubing i use, gets flimsy when it gets hot, and sooner or later it will get dislodged, unless i take some stainless wire and braid it through the false bottom opening, and around the tubing gasket.

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This is what happened to me when I had my false bottom issues.

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So kind of like a BIAB?

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I find that even with my false bottom a few grains will get thru, especially when Im using wheat, which I use a good bit. So when my mash is running thru my mash tun and into my boil kettle I just attach a hop bag to the outside, not the inside. So I will catch some of the grains that get thru.

While not totally necessary, I have found that t I i catch a good amount of my grains by doing this.

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However, if you are introducing lacto pre boil you really do not have to worry about the kegging equipment as all the bacteria will die off in the boil.

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I think, then, that this is the way I want to go. Tubing and fermenters dedicated to sours is not an issue, but I would have to bottle it because I don't want to have to worry about a keg and lines.

after you kettle sour, how long do you boil?

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after you kettle sour, how long do you boil?

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I boil anything with pils in it for at least 60 mins, but that's personal preference.

A lot of people boil 15 mins or less. Just long enough to ensure all the bugs are dead.

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While not totally necessary, I have found that t I i catch a good amount of my grains by doing this.

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I need to find a better way of filtering out hops sediment after my post boil cool down. I've tried whirlpooling the wort, but i still end up getting a shite load of trub clogging up my 2 strainer system. I'm going from the ball valve of my boil kettle to a wire mesh strainer, to a funnel, with it's own fine strainer, to the fermenter. I typically have to stop about 5 times to scoop out the trub that clogs up the strainers.

Would an auto-siphon racking cane work with this?

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I need to find a better way of filtering out hops sediment after my post boil cool down. I've tried whirlpooling the wort, but i still end up getting a shite load of trub clogging up my 2 strainer system. I'm going from the ball valve of my boil kettle to a wire mesh strainer, to a funnel, with it's own fine strainer, to the fermenter. I typically have to stop about 5 times to scoop out the trub that clogs up the strainers.

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a paint stirrer attached to a cordless drill will give you a mountain of hops so high Sherpas will boycott your shite... too soon?

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Would an auto-siphon racking cane work with this?

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If the liquid is hot make sure the plastic is graded high heat food grade. If this is after cooling, it isn't as big of an issue.