Hi,
I've started no-chill and when I rack into the FV from the cube I get approx 1.4 litres left in the bottom of the cube. My current KFL is 2.2 litres (ie trub in kettle) - do I just add the 1.4 to the 2.2 and stick that in as the new KFL figure ?
seems i'll need a little more water to boil with doing no-chill to cater for the extra loss.
Cheers
Post #2 made 11 years ago
Hi dom,
Yep, your thinking is correct except...
The BIABacus Pre-Release trub figures are (and the main release, while slightly improved will be also) just a guide. In other words, if you are brewing a high gravity , highly hopped brew, there will be a lot more trub than in a low gravity, slightly hopped brew.
There is also a little too much generalisation on no-chilling and active chilling, on all sites including this one. This site is less culpable but, for me at least, I'd want to hear more from you on how long you are keeping the wort in the cube before pitching before I commented further.
PP
Yep, your thinking is correct except...
The BIABacus Pre-Release trub figures are (and the main release, while slightly improved will be also) just a guide. In other words, if you are brewing a high gravity , highly hopped brew, there will be a lot more trub than in a low gravity, slightly hopped brew.
There is also a little too much generalisation on no-chilling and active chilling, on all sites including this one. This site is less culpable but, for me at least, I'd want to hear more from you on how long you are keeping the wort in the cube before pitching before I commented further.
PP
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Post #3 made 11 years ago
Hi PP,
in this case it was about a week or 10 days in the cube. This is the main reason I do no-chill, ie to cut down on my brew day length and it means I can finish it off one night after work when my fermenting chamber is empty. Having said that I do see times where I might have a couple of cubes waiting to be fermented but even so the lead time shouldn't be more than 3 weeks.
Cheers
in this case it was about a week or 10 days in the cube. This is the main reason I do no-chill, ie to cut down on my brew day length and it means I can finish it off one night after work when my fermenting chamber is empty. Having said that I do see times where I might have a couple of cubes waiting to be fermented but even so the lead time shouldn't be more than 3 weeks.
Cheers
Post #4 made 11 years ago
Sounds good/sensible to me Dom 
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