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How do you get burnt beer? By drawing to quickly with your recirculating pump thereby not allowing the liquid to drain quickly enough back through the grain bag which causes a vacuum to be created under the bag allowing the liquid to come out of contact with the element long enough for the element ...

Tim, I have the same element in my kettle with the Auber PID controller. You can set your PID to manual at about 5-10% with a stir every 20 min or so and be fine. With that low of a power setting you won't have to worry about scorching, etc. on the bottom of the bag and don't need a false bottom. I ...

If you are worried, you can find a pizza pan that has hole in it, put a few stainless bolts to hold it up off the bottom above your element. Cheap solution if you can find the right size. Otherwise, just keep the power low and brew on...

I do not use anything to keep the bag up off the element during the mash. I set my pid to 5% or so on manual during the mash to maintain mash temps. No burning or scorching. The only time I have had ANY scorching issues is recirculation during mash that caused air pockets to form around the element ...

FWIW, mine is in the T after the outlet valve. Use recirculation during initial ramp up to mash temps then when recirculating during chilling with immersion chiller. Other than that, set the pid to a manual setting of 5% if you need to keep at mash temp and call it good. Not quite as simple as Todd ...

If you have a manual setting on your pid, set it to about 4-5% and stir every 15-30 minutes. At that setting, the element is not putting off that much heat, so no scorching, and puts off just enough to keep the temp from dropping too much. I brew in my detached garage and, while having heat to keep ...

I started out using a pump to recirc during mash, now I don't. If you are not careful with your recirculating flow rate you will end up pulling too hard below the bag and create an air pocket. If you create an air pocket, you run the risk of your element scorching (been there done that). You won't h...

Keep it simple and don't worry about the bag sitting on the element. As long as you don't recirculate during the mash, you should be fine. Only time I have had an issue with burnt wort is when using the pump at too fast of a rate created an air pocket under the bag around the element. I would bet th...

I've had it happen but traced the cause to recirculating too fast (I used to use a pump to constantly recirculate while mashing). My method caused wort to be drawn from the kettle below the bag faster than it could drain back through, causing an air space around the element and allowing it to get v...

Update: I don't recirc any more once I have mashed in and stabilized temp; had a couple of burned batches. Best I can figure, the pump was drawing faster than the wort was flowing through the grain bed (even though it was cranked down to a mere trickle) causing some cavitation under the basket resu...

I WAS in the recirculating camp but I am quickly getting out of it. You will not get any more efficiency from recirculating than by simply giving it a stir every 15-20 min. I have an electric kettle powered/controlled with an Auber PID, use it to get to the proper strike water temp, drop in the grai...

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