Great looking beer! It does take a few brews to get the Brewzilla dialed in but once you’re there it’s pretty consistent. I have found that stirring it a few times during the mash will increase your efficiency quite a bit. Cheers 🍻
Thanks! I was pleased with this one. Great point about stirring -- I stir about every 15 minutes to make sure nothing is clumped up, and because I can't help myself. ;) I was a bit concerned on this first batch with too much grain getting through the false bottom so the mill setting I used for this batch (Mighty Mill 3 roller) was 0.04". I have a couple more Brewzilla brew day videos in the works where I milled the grains finer and used a brew bag but still got about the same efficiency. Another viewer said that to him the shot of the grains in this video after I removed the malt pipe looked like there were quite a lot of whole grains in there ("It should look more like oatmeal" is specifically what he said), so I'm going to run some sacrificial grain through the mill and mess with the settings to make sure it's doing what I think it's doing. I might also mill my next batch twice and see if that helps. I wouldn't mind getting up to something like 70% but as you said consistency is the main thing. I did get a lot better efficiency (usually around 80%) doing small batches with a brew bag in a kettle, which is kind of interesting. Anyway, lots to experiment with which is a big part of the fun. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for watching!
@@irondalebrewing I started out doing BIAB as well and did have to double crush my grains to get my efficiency up. My Brewzilla is a couple years old, V3 and I did have to change a few of the base values in Brewfather to be more in line with my setup. Grain crush is important in any system and yours did look undercrushed Anyways keep brewing and enjoying this hobby of ours and in the end as long as we’re making good beers that are enjoyable to drink don’t get too hung up on efficiency. I’ll keep watching your content as well.
@@FermentationAdventures Thanks! I was really pleased with how it came out, despite the low efficiency/OG. I'll definitely take another run at this one.
Looks awesome! Cheers!
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Great looking beer! It does take a few brews to get the Brewzilla dialed in but once you’re there it’s pretty consistent. I have found that stirring it a few times during the mash will increase your efficiency quite a bit. Cheers 🍻
Thanks! I was pleased with this one. Great point about stirring -- I stir about every 15 minutes to make sure nothing is clumped up, and because I can't help myself. ;) I was a bit concerned on this first batch with too much grain getting through the false bottom so the mill setting I used for this batch (Mighty Mill 3 roller) was 0.04". I have a couple more Brewzilla brew day videos in the works where I milled the grains finer and used a brew bag but still got about the same efficiency. Another viewer said that to him the shot of the grains in this video after I removed the malt pipe looked like there were quite a lot of whole grains in there ("It should look more like oatmeal" is specifically what he said), so I'm going to run some sacrificial grain through the mill and mess with the settings to make sure it's doing what I think it's doing. I might also mill my next batch twice and see if that helps. I wouldn't mind getting up to something like 70% but as you said consistency is the main thing. I did get a lot better efficiency (usually around 80%) doing small batches with a brew bag in a kettle, which is kind of interesting. Anyway, lots to experiment with which is a big part of the fun. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for watching!
@@irondalebrewing I started out doing BIAB as well and did have to double crush my grains to get my efficiency up. My Brewzilla is a couple years old, V3 and I did have to change a few of the base values in Brewfather to be more in line with my setup. Grain crush is important in any system and yours did look undercrushed Anyways keep brewing and enjoying this hobby of ours and in the end as long as we’re making good beers that are enjoyable to drink don’t get too hung up on efficiency. I’ll keep watching your content as well.
Brewing a smash beer today. Pilsner and HBC 438
looks great! Sounds like it tastes great too!
@@FermentationAdventures Thanks! I was really pleased with how it came out, despite the low efficiency/OG. I'll definitely take another run at this one.
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