I appreciate your Videos a lot. I am looking forward to switch from a G30 to a B40 soon and learnt many details from your channel. Hope, you are doing well. In my opinion, you should not regard boil off directly as a factor if efficiency, since only water gets boiled off and you raise gravity at the same time as the volume shrinks. Just my 2ct.
Hi Bradley! Very informative video on how to improve efficiency. The increased sugar value after clarifying the wort has to do with the homogeneity of the sample. If the wort is still unclear, it affects the density and thus the sugar (extract content). The measurement should be taken after pumping out cloudy wort. When the wort is well mixed and homogeneous, you will receive consistent gravity measurement values. Let us know what you think.
Hi Bradley ... let me say BIG THANK you for all your videos of Brewtools products. Currently, I'm in the market for Brewtools B40 + some additional stuff, and I'm doing my homework to figure out what to buy (or not) and why. Then your channel is an invaluable resource for this purpose. Helps me a lot. If we ever meet in person, I'll buy you some beers (a lot of beers) You definitely deserve it :-) Again .. Thank you!
Super awesome video Bradley. I learned a lot. Looking forward to trying out some of these tips. My efficiency is usually around 70. But inexplicably I hit near 80 sometimes. Would be nice to be more predictable so my recipes can be better dialed in.
Bradley, I am enjoying your videos and potentially ready to get into a B80 type setup. I am new to the brew house so I’m doing a lot of research right now. It would be nice to see maybe a 2 to 3 part series on the planning, recipe creation using Brewfather. As you said it is all about building a good routine and logging what works and what needs work. It might be a little overkill for the seasoned brew masters, but it might help out a newbie like my self. Water treatment, testing, PH when, were, how it all starts to add up… 1 - understand your equipment - what you need to know to dial in your kit ie B80. 2 - Brew day planning - recipe creation, stocking what you’ll need for the day grain to water treatment items, Brewfather entry and brew log setups. 3 Brew the planned beer with testing and log entries. 4 fermentation’s process and tasting of finished product.. I know this is simple to write out and most certainly hard to film and produce, but everyone can benefit from seeing the behind the brew day items that take place in order to get a good brew day routine in place!
@@PortlyGentleman Thank You for being so helpful! I need to design my rolling cart cabinet first so I can tuck it away after a brew day. Happy wife happy life....
Hello friend. I'M the owner of a b150 on a small commercial brewery here in Portugal. I used to have 3 vessel system, and brew with great efficiency. However I have been struggling with the b150, efficiency way to low arround 65% on a 20kilos grain bill. Grain is well crushed, i do recirculation with the new manyfold. Never tried lifting the basket and vorlauf again, will give it a try. But i find that there is a lot of sugar in the grain after the sparge, i sparge with 80°c hot water, but without much luck. Do you have any tips I could use? Can you take a lot at my brewfather maybe? Thanks again
Thank you for your videos, very instructive! Do I see a flow meter ?(2.20min) where can i get that? Other question about efficiency : is oat flakes (30%) can decrease efficiency with a bad filtration?thanks!
Hi Bradly, thanks a lot, for all of your informatative videos. I really appreciate that! Since English is unfortunately not my first language and the Imperial system is very foreign to me, I don't understand what malt / water ratio you feel is optimal for the B80. Would you be so kind and tell me your base ratio, from which you start? Thank you so much.
H Bradley, very impressive videos I love the time you have taken with lighting and scripting - very professional. I'm interested in the BrewTools infrastructure (B80/F80) and are coming to it new. Would you consider a full end to end "recipe design to drinking" video series with the latest BrewTools equipment and accessories (many upgrades since you started and brew setup optimisations) using your favourite equipment from other companies to fill the BrewTools gaps? Appreciate the effort involved.
Interested in a bit more detail about your method of pushing wort out with co2. Is this after you've chilled/transferred the wort using the pump to get the final bit out?
Hey Bradley, I'm interested in how you use CO2 to push your wort to the fermenter. I have a slight uphill climb and that's where I see the most loss of wort volume. Frustrating.
It definitely works extremely well I highly recommend it. all you really need is a Brewtools gas post. A couple of tri-clamps and the gaskets. as well as a T if you don’t already have one.
Thanks! More BT videos. This was really helpful. I have a B40 with a steam hat and condenser. I have not touched the boil off rate in Brewfather as it is pretty much spot on. What i do notice is that OG is the same before and after boil. Is this because the boil off rate is so low? When you calculate losses, do you fill up and then circulate through the counterflow chiller before pumping out?
If you’re trying to figure out the volume of the kettle that’s not necessary.. if you’re trying to figure out the complete losses within your system absolutely make sure everything has water in it .
@@PortlyGentleman trying to figure out total loss. I’ve added, based on your setup, more valves and bends 😄 I measured 4.2 liters loss…?…? When I drain the rest I never get back the 15 liters I put in, I only get 14.2 liters. So somwhere in the system 0.8 liters is left. I guess in the CF chillers as I did not take it of, I only blew the water out.
Thanks for the video! Very useful, my brewhouse effeciency on B40pro is less than 70%, I think because of quite big chiller/tubing losses (around 4.5liters), thanks for your suggestion to purge chiller/tubing with CO2, going to try it next brew (in fact I already tried it on last brew, but I end up with too much wort to fit into my grainfather conical :) ) I have few questions, would appreciate if you'll find time to answer 1) do you rotate sparge manifold (brewtools one) while sparging? myself I keep rotating it every few seconds, its not too convinient (and its hot), but I think it should give better efficiency because of more even sparge? 2) vorlauf, do you do it before or after sparging? Thanks!
You should definitely be able to get that efficiency up. being able to scale back your losses is going to help with that immensely. I do rotate mine on occasion I’m not sure that it does any good. it does keep me occupied and that’s important lol . Vorlauf If you’re going to do one you definitely want to do that before you Sparge. Let me know how your next break goes?
@@PortlyGentleman you mentioned in video water grist ratio, am I got it right? Is it 1.4qt/pound for you? Not sure if I translated it right to metric. Is it around 2 liters per kg? I’m asking because I have it around 3.8liters per kg on my b40, and it seems working well for me, but maybe I’m missing something?
Bradley - what kind of volumes are you sparging with for a 10 gal and 20L batch sizes? I am getting a b80, and need some help to understand what size hat to get. Thanks.
@@garthridgeway if it was me I would go with the bigger one you never know when you might want to brew a larger volume. Better to have the capacity than not .
Nice! I'm nowhere near 88% that's wild! I might have missed it but what do you think about mash PH? Is that something you think about for maximizing efficiency?
Here’s another video you’ll definitely want to check out. How to mash it's a good 1 🍻
th-cam.com/video/q3c6nxWJyTE/w-d-xo.html
Thank God for Bradley you should be called Mr brewtools watched all your related videos many times over big thumbs up from down under
Thank you 🍻
Very nicely done Bradley, as always. Very important topic for sure and people can struggle with this on any brewing system.
Thank you my friend I hope you had a great weekend 🍻
Fantastic video as always. My go-to channel for everything B40/80/150.
Thank you 🍻🍻
Thanks Bradley I'm new to unitanks and you help me alot!
It's my pleasure
Wow! So many tips! Good video!! There are still some beer Gods alive sharing knowledge for better beers. Gracias!!
🍻🍻 I’m happy you enjoyed it
I appreciate your Videos a lot. I am looking forward to switch from a G30 to a B40 soon and learnt many details from your channel. Hope, you are doing well.
In my opinion, you should not regard boil off directly as a factor if efficiency, since only water gets boiled off and you raise gravity at the same time as the volume shrinks. Just my 2ct.
Thank you 🍻
Great video! And most important: have fun brewing. I have. And I like your way of presenting the process.
Thank you very very much 🍻🍻
killer vid braj! Glad to see your still killing it, cheers!
Thanks man🍻
great info and love your reviews.
Thank you
Some great info here even if you don't have Brewtools stuff!
Thanks Trent 🍻
Hi Bradley! Very informative video on how to improve efficiency.
The increased sugar value after clarifying the wort has to do with the homogeneity of the sample. If the wort is still unclear, it affects the density and thus the sugar (extract content). The measurement should be taken after pumping out cloudy wort. When the wort is well mixed and homogeneous, you will receive consistent gravity measurement values.
Let us know what you think.
Also, 0.3% difference is pretty much without measurement error.
Great!!! thanks! Sparging more time definitely helped me increase the efficiency
It can be quite a bit hopefully I was able to help and not confuse 🍻
Hi Bradley ... let me say BIG THANK you for all your videos of Brewtools products. Currently, I'm in the market for Brewtools B40 + some additional stuff, and I'm doing my homework to figure out what to buy (or not) and why. Then your channel is an invaluable resource for this purpose. Helps me a lot. If we ever meet in person, I'll buy you some beers (a lot of beers) You definitely deserve it :-) Again .. Thank you!
That’s too kind of you I am truly happy to help 🍻
Super awesome video Bradley. I learned a lot. Looking forward to trying out some of these tips. My efficiency is usually around 70. But inexplicably I hit near 80 sometimes. Would be nice to be more predictable so my recipes can be better dialed in.
I'm confident you can handle it for me it's really about mastering the hobby something I've yet to do 🤣
Bradley, I am enjoying your videos and potentially ready to get into a B80 type setup. I am new to the brew house so I’m doing a lot of research right now. It would be nice to see maybe a 2 to 3 part series on the planning, recipe creation using Brewfather. As you said it is all about building a good routine and logging what works and what needs work. It might be a little overkill for the seasoned brew masters, but it might help out a newbie like my self. Water treatment, testing, PH when, were, how it all starts to add up…
1 - understand your equipment - what you need to know to dial in your kit ie B80.
2 - Brew day planning - recipe creation, stocking what you’ll need for the day grain to water treatment items, Brewfather entry and brew log setups.
3 Brew the planned beer with testing and log entries.
4 fermentation’s process and tasting of finished product..
I know this is simple to write out and most certainly hard to film and produce, but everyone can benefit from seeing the behind the brew day items that take place in order to get a good brew day routine in place!
Those are all very distinct possibilities I have a lot of projects going on could probably easily work these suggestions in !
@@PortlyGentleman Thank You for being so helpful! I need to design my rolling cart cabinet first so I can tuck it away after a brew day. Happy wife happy life....
@@johnhoth5960 of course it’s my pleasure and I fully agree with your statement got to keep the boss happy 🍻🍻
Just nice tips! Thks for sharing!
Anytime 🍻
Man your setup is just awesome... Would cost my marriage to get this😀
I built mine over a period of a couple of years a piece at a time she’ll never noticed trust me 🍻
I built mine over a period of a couple of years a piece at a time she’ll never noticed trust me 🍻
Hello friend.
I'M the owner of a b150 on a small commercial brewery here in Portugal. I used to have 3 vessel system, and brew with great efficiency. However I have been struggling with the b150, efficiency way to low arround 65% on a 20kilos grain bill. Grain is well crushed, i do recirculation with the new manyfold. Never tried lifting the basket and vorlauf again, will give it a try. But i find that there is a lot of sugar in the grain after the sparge, i sparge with 80°c hot water, but without much luck. Do you have any tips I could use? Can you take a lot at my brewfather maybe? Thanks again
Thank you for your videos, very instructive! Do I see a flow meter ?(2.20min) where can i get that? Other question about efficiency : is oat flakes (30%) can decrease efficiency with a bad filtration?thanks!
Lol That's actually a scale
Hi Bradly, thanks a lot, for all of your informatative videos. I really appreciate that! Since English is unfortunately not my first language and the Imperial system is very foreign to me, I don't understand what malt / water ratio you feel is optimal for the B80. Would you be so kind and tell me your base ratio, from which you start? Thank you so much.
H Bradley, very impressive videos I love the time you have taken with lighting and scripting - very professional. I'm interested in the BrewTools infrastructure (B80/F80) and are coming to it new. Would you consider a full end to end "recipe design to drinking" video series with the latest BrewTools equipment and accessories (many upgrades since you started and brew setup optimisations) using your favourite equipment from other companies to fill the BrewTools gaps? Appreciate the effort involved.
Quite possibly thank you very very much for commenting and watching 🍻
Great video
Thanks for your time. This is good stuff
It’s my pleasure 🍻
Interested in a bit more detail about your method of pushing wort out with co2. Is this after you've chilled/transferred the wort using the pump to get the final bit out?
Great video! I’m curious about your custom cover on your b80 where your control panel used to be, where did you get that?
Thank you
Very welcome
Hey Bradley, I'm interested in how you use CO2 to push your wort to the fermenter. I have a slight uphill climb and that's where I see the most loss of wort volume. Frustrating.
It definitely works extremely well I highly recommend it. all you really need is a Brewtools gas post. A couple of tri-clamps and the gaskets. as well as a T if you don’t already have one.
Thanks! More BT videos. This was really helpful.
I have a B40 with a steam hat and condenser. I have not touched the boil off rate in Brewfather as it is pretty much spot on. What i do notice is that OG is the same before and after boil. Is this because the boil off rate is so low?
When you calculate losses, do you fill up and then circulate through the counterflow chiller before pumping out?
If you’re trying to figure out the volume of the kettle that’s not necessary.. if you’re trying to figure out the complete losses within your system absolutely make sure everything has water in it .
@@PortlyGentleman trying to figure out total loss. I’ve added, based on your setup, more valves and bends 😄 I measured 4.2 liters loss…?…? When I drain the rest I never get back the 15 liters I put in, I only get 14.2 liters. So somwhere in the system 0.8 liters is left. I guess in the CF chillers as I did not take it of, I only blew the water out.
Thanks for the video! Very useful, my brewhouse effeciency on B40pro is less than 70%, I think because of quite big chiller/tubing losses (around 4.5liters), thanks for your suggestion to purge chiller/tubing with CO2, going to try it next brew (in fact I already tried it on last brew, but I end up with too much wort to fit into my grainfather conical :) )
I have few questions, would appreciate if you'll find time to answer
1) do you rotate sparge manifold (brewtools one) while sparging? myself I keep rotating it every few seconds, its not too convinient (and its hot), but I think it should give better efficiency because of more even sparge?
2) vorlauf, do you do it before or after sparging?
Thanks!
You should definitely be able to get that efficiency up. being able to scale back your losses is going to help with that immensely. I do rotate mine on occasion I’m not sure that it does any good. it does keep me occupied and that’s important lol .
Vorlauf If you’re going to do one you definitely want to do that before you Sparge. Let me know how your next break goes?
@@PortlyGentleman thanks, I’ll post comment here :)
Hi Bradley, can you share your brewfather profile for B80? Thanks!
What areas of your profile are getting in trouble?
@@PortlyGentleman you mentioned in video water grist ratio, am I got it right? Is it 1.4qt/pound for you? Not sure if I translated it right to metric. Is it around 2 liters per kg? I’m asking because I have it around 3.8liters per kg on my b40, and it seems working well for me, but maybe I’m missing something?
Where did you get your hood?
It's just a 36 inch range hood NEXR If I remember correctly
Bradley - what kind of volumes are you sparging with for a 10 gal and 20L batch sizes? I am getting a b80, and need some help to understand what size hat to get.
Thanks.
I haven’t done anything 20 L for so long I can’t remember honestly. I think an HLT with a capacity of 45 L 12 gallons would do nicely
@@PortlyGentleman thanks. Meant 20 gap!
I’m tossing up between the 35L and 65L Digi boil.
@@garthridgeway if it was me I would go with the bigger one you never know when you might want to brew a larger volume. Better to have the capacity than not .
Nice! I'm nowhere near 88% that's wild! I might have missed it but what do you think about mash PH? Is that something you think about for maximizing efficiency?
It’s definitely in the video pH is pretty important I’m thinking 🍻
do you find mash out increases efficiency
Yes
Do you mash out darker grains in a stout can I ask? i fear astringency@@PortlyGentleman
timestamp 2:21 - tare, tared; tear, torn. ... ... ...come on!
Thanks for video. Where can I get that stand for pH meter on th-cam.com/video/BB6xAVeMpGk/w-d-xo.html, please?
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