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While doing a bit of research on this I came across this on Another forum. Thoughts or comments would be appreciated... BIAB...Is a mini sparge worthwhile? I thought I should do an experiment with today's brew to answer the above question. I brewed 20l using 4.2kg of grain. Something similar to my l...

Nothing stands out as an obvious cause then :scratch: Although is it possible there had been a build up or layer(s) on the element, and it just hit critical mass on this brew? That seems to be the only possibility though I thought I had cleaned the elements well. I can't believe I'm the only person...

I think the mash was ok, it was about 2 hours or so in total from dough in to mash out and I got a fairly decent extraction. And the bag I used is good too, if anything its a little too fine, so no problem there. Not 100% wheat, it was 4kg wheat malt, 2kg pilsner malt. It must have happened during t...

I did a decoction mash but skipped the protein rest, jumped from acid rest to maltose rest. I didn't do protein rest because I used fully modified grain and didn't want a thin watery beer.

Burnt wort

Think I posted this in the wrong forum so I'll try again. After much research and loads of questions i finally got round to brewing my wheat beer on Sunday night. Everything went fine, mash, boil, cool, pitch all good. However when I transferred from boiler to fv I noticed that the 2 heating element...

Ruined Brew

My recent attempt at a wheat beer turned to disaster when during the boil, the wort burnt onto the electric heating elements causing the whole brew to taste like smokey horrible burnt wood. I've used this boiler twice before with no problems, can't understand what went wrong this time, the only diff...

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