First all grain American IPA

[billmcc]

Just completed my first all grain brew, every thing went fine i was aiming for 23ltr @1.056 but got 24 ltr @1.062 which was fine only trouble i had was my bazooka filter kept blocking and i had to keep disturbing the trub when pumping to the fermenter will this be ok or is there anything i should do.
many thanks Bill Mcc

 

[Oneflewover]

It'll be absolutely fine, had to do that myself on several occasions. Sounds like you had a good brewday! :thumb:

 

[GerritT]

Looking very good, wish I had such luck with overshooting the amount and the gravity

 

[Linalmeemow]

More and stronger beer. That is a successful brewday! I had the bazooka filter problem until I stopped disturbing the wort during chilling. Let it settle properly for 20-25 minutes and the filter will work well.

 

[Clint]

Hos long does your chill take if you don't stir the wort? My bazooka blocked today too!

 

[ACBEV]

Bazooka! Whats that! You lot are far too finicky, I chuck the whole lot in...

 

[billmcc]

Hos long does your chill take if you don't stir the wort? My bazooka blocked today too!

It took 35 min but i was recirculating all the time

 

[AdeDunn]

My bazooka used to block like a fiend, even if I left it for 30 minutes to settle.

I upgraded to a bigger bazooka, and switched to only using whole hops, no more blocking. You might want to turn the recirculation off for 30 minutes before you transfer though, else it won't settle.

 

[Linalmeemow]

Hos long does your chill take if you don't stir the wort? My bazooka blocked today too!

I use an immersion chiller for about half an hour. I used to stir as the wort ended up with noticeable hot spots (when I touched the boiler some parts would be stone cold, others still painfully hot to the touch) but after half an hour if I stirred it would always be low 20s, so I figured if I left well alone it would naturally mix itself when I transferred to the FV and that has worked. Last brew was 120g of pellets in the boiler and no problems with a blocked filter.

 

[AdeDunn]

If you put the outlet from recirculation inside the wort chiller, it cools super fast from my experience yesterday... I got it from boiling to 15 degrees C in approx 25 minutes doing this. Prior to this, I stirred almost the entire time.

ACBEV, I'd love to be able to do that. The one time I did though I lost about 5 litres of beer, as whilst transferring to the bottling bucket I ended up stirring up the trub with the siphon with a good 5 litres still left... I absolutely have to have the surface of the trub lower than the tap on the FV, so I can just transfer from the tap and avoid stirring. I was using a bucket clip, however my tremor just shook it clean off whilst I was lowering the end of the siphon. lol

So now I do everything I can to keep trub to a minimum and stop the bazooka from blocking. :thumb1: Not that easy to do when you BIAB though.:headbang: