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Yeah I get that now, I was having a bit of a moment 🤦

That sounds more understandable to me, the OP reported only boiling off 90ml though which is where my confusion started

Just realised that you are talking about the sparge which threw me off as I do a full volume mash. Typing has made me make sense of it, you obviously need less water to start because you are boiling less off 🤦it has been a long day 🤣

Sorry, still not getting it 🤣 less water in the sparge would give you less wort in the end, meaning that you would need to add more water and therefore dilute it so where does the extra gravity come from?

I am not knocking the condenser and I have thought about it myself in the past, I am just trying to get my head around how little is lost to boil off as I would have expected a bit less but not only 90ml 😳

I get that brewing software will tell you how to adjust the recipe (I am also a Brewfather user), I am just surprised at how little boil off you get and therefore how much the recipe would need to be adjusted. I did a stout at weekend that had a 20pt difference between my pre boil and post boil...

I assume that is the wrong way round or you have somehow diluted your wort during the boil 😅 I do like the look of these for brewing inside during winter so it does raise an interesting point though, if the boil off is so low then recipes would need to be adjusted to add more malt, not a...

22 litres of Chocolate Stout (a bit late but hopefully ready for Christmas 🤞) Total: 7,715L

Think I paid about £20 for a refill but it was a year ago so not 100% sure, also lost the receipts for my deposits so probably won't get that back, not that I am planning on giving up any time soon so not really a big deal

It would just be more to put through the drain hole, I already have the plug for my heatbelt and temperature probe for my inkbird through it. I suppose I could try and fit some 3/16 through and then use adaptors either side, that is similar to my keg fridge where I have 2 lots of 3/16 for co2...

I use the blowtie and only had an issue when I managed to get it gunked up by getting beer inside, but even then it was easy enough to dismantle and clean which then made it good as new again Interesting, I have been meaning to get one of these for mine but I use mine inside the fridge, has...

Putting my spunding valve on the beer post instead of the gas post which resulted in my garage being flooded by my Christmas stout when fermentation kicked off 😭

Sounds like you got a HIIT workout thrown in for free 🤣 I can imagine it quickly loosing the appeal ☹️ at least you tried it and have got a plan going forward 👍

As others have said normally 5 or 6 hours but you can normally do other things during that time. My brew days normally fall into 2 types Early morning: Wake up while everyone is still asleep and start brewing, I would usually have a couple of brews, breakfast, get showered and dressed while...

Fair enough, I hadn't considered using an ice bucket to cool and re-use the water 👍 Sorry Mashbag 🤣

But with the amount of water that an immersion chiller uses you would need a lot of bucket refills! After saving the first couple for cleaning you couldn't really reuse the water because it would be warm after going through the chiller so you would need to constantly get rid of them and without...

Sorry I can't help with no-chill but I am interested to know how you managed to use your immersion chiller with no running water?

I like people that are willing to try ideas out to see if they work and admire your willingness to give it a go @MashBag but ... ... I can't help feeling that it sounds more of a faff than just using a cylinder 🤣 that being said make sure you keep us updated if you do decide to go for it 👍 Is...

This forum baffles me at times. A message to inform members that CML are closing down so the owners can retire, after a couple of "i wish them all the best messages" the usual suspects show up and cause an argument out of nothing spoiling yet another thread, this time getting upset because...

Really sorry to see them close but wish them all the best retirement. As others have said they were fantastic for small orders and the emails always made me smile. I need to place an order for my Christmas stout so I will make sure I get when I can from CML