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Ack, good luck Llamaman. Apologies for the slight hi-jack with my own efficiency fun! I'd suggest wait-and-see, in my amateur "please let there be beer" approach!

Thanks chaps. I've been using brewersfriend and asking it to do the temperature volume adjustments, hopefully that gets the same. But for sure I think I can do better on accuracy too as I've just been using notches on my spoon :/. Aha the lid was most definitely off! At one point I thought it...

Wow, thanks Shrimpy! That's a lot of useful info :). The Klarstein has a 1500w and a 3000w setting, I had it on the 3k for probably 55 of the 60 mins. Extending to 70 sounds like a good start as I think I was slightly up on target volume. Only by 0.5l maybe but I only did a 10l batch so it's...

Agree! I tried leaving it on the 1500w element but it wasn't that mental, and some quick googling made me give in and switch the 3000w back on. Anyway it all went well as regards me avoiding panicking and messing anything up. However my efficiency ended up being 56%, which I suppose is the...

I did my first BIAB today! Then after recording everything I just searched for "low efficiency" to find out just this :D. Brewersfriend if I followed it correctly says 56% efficiency. I was aiming for 60% boohoo. Apparently conversion and pre-boil i was up in the 80's so i'm unsure exactly how...

Aha! Well in the end I did similar to you, however I'm only doing a 10L batch this time so it's still a mystery! It's all quite nerve... racking :/

Today I'm hopefully doing my first BIAB! Or maybe tomorrow as I realise how much I have to do. Does anybody know the volume that the max line inside the kettle signifies? I'm assuming it's 25L but I'm scared to start marking L marks in case it's just some arbitrary "stop here k" mark!

I wish I could 3D print a better FV! Does anybody fancy a tiny bronze FV that leaks every 0.05mm? :D

I thought I'd update my own thread. I succumbed to item 1 and bought that Klarstein thing. Should arrive in a few days! Item 2 is outstanding, mostly because the garage was full of wood. However I've now cleared that mostly and started painting walls. Item 3 is in progress, my grandfather and...

Well indeed Custy, but you can't discount my ability to mess things up! :) I forget if I took that sample at pitch time or when it was 30c, which I'll check the result of now... well it'd help but not quite. Maybe I hadn't stirred it enough.

Thanks eramm. I just fell for their 20 quid discount and ordered it too! I read your review before buying, which helped me make the decision! Today I've been building a nice little bench to put it on :).

I just tried my second bottle of this from the fridge. Lovely. I started it off at 19.5L, OG was 1044, had it in the fermentation chamber at 20c for 15 days. FG was 1013 (it was 1020 at 7 days, so pretty linear, though I did stir it a bit due to nerves). I then briefly racked, realised I had a...

Thanks Dutto! Duly done :).

Well I finally joined after spending many hours over quite a few years looking in here! I started making beer from kits about 5 years ago in my flat. I had little success controlling temperature in the bathroom of the new build, rather well insulated building! So after a couple of disappointing...

Well after reading these forums for quite a while recently I'm getting involved to say: this setup looks excellent! Although I got through bottling my first brew in a while today (Muntons Imperial Stout, smells great) all fine, this looks like a so much easier and controllable approach...