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Busy brewing my weiss. Finished my tap tower



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[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

^ WoW, that looks cool

[jannieverjaar Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jannieverjaar]

Awesome looking tower man.

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[FaanP Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close FaanP]

Thanks all .... 65 % efficiency with a Weiss - 73% wheat in the grain bill .... I'm feeling better about my build ....

[Jitters Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jitters]

Thats legit.. good going with wheat.. mine suck when I add wheat

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My very first brew was a 15litre Weiss premix from BG. I didn't have a hydrometer at the time (sold out everywhere), but the abv was weak.. thinking 3% at best.
After that I brewed a couple other brews, got my hydrometer in the mean time and attempted another Weiss.. OG 1.034 .. that was after the boil. I've not tried again since .. but reading you guys mssgs makes me think there's something up with wheat. I see the ppg for Castle Malting wheat blanc is 38 - so one should get good extraction from it.

[FaanP Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close FaanP]

My OG is 1060 vs estimate of 1055 (entered my efficiency at 60%).... Im very happy

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Well, if I drop my Eff in the software to 60% then I'll also hit my numbers, but the idea is not to drop anything

[FaanP Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close FaanP]

Well, if I drop my Eff in the software to 60% then I'll also hit my numbers, but the idea is not to drop anything

My first brew with the new equipment it came in at 45% efficiency - Thats why I'm so impressed. With my next brewday I'll aim for 70%

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My very first brew was a 15litre Weiss premix from BG. I didn't have a hydrometer at the time (sold out everywhere), but the abv was weak.. thinking 3% at best.
After that I brewed a couple other brews, got my hydrometer in the mean time and attempted another Weiss.. OG 1.034 .. that was after the boil. I've not tried again since .. but reading you guys mssgs makes me think there's something up with wheat. I see the ppg for Castle Malting wheat blanc is 38 - so one should get good extraction from it.

few things I've learned from wheat..

1. need to crush way finer that normal malt. It's a hard kernel and smaller than barley
2. need a proper mashout. something like 78C for 10minutes, I find this increased my efficiency the most.
3. it makes like snot and holds on to the sweet wort, so you need to sparge as well.
4. if you go the traditional 3v system then you need rice hulls otherwise your gonna have a bad time.

Helped me with my efficiency but it still sucks.

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few things I've learned from wheat..

1. need to crush way finer that normal malt. It's a hard kernel and smaller than barley
2. need a proper mashout. something like 78C for 10minutes, I find this increased my efficiency the most.
3. it makes like snot and holds on to the sweet wort, so you need to sparge as well.
4. if you go the traditional 3v system then you need rice hulls otherwise your gonna have a bad time.

Helped me with my efficiency but it still sucks.

I didn't know that .. That might explain the poor efficiencies - pre-mix shop milled. Their mill is prob tuned for barley, then come wheat - it's not crushing it fine enough. Makes sense.
Again !! if you want to do it properly - do it yourself... with that I mean mill it yourself.

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Arrived this morning. Will start to build my inline carbonator with in the next week or 2



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[Jitters Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jitters]

cool is this for pre fermentation? to aerate the wort?

What are you going to use as the source of oxygen?

[FaanP Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close FaanP]

It is to carbonate my beer ..... see here:

https://truegrist.ca/2019/01/30/diy-...nation-system/

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Busy brewing my weiss. Finished my tap tower



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I have to redo this - long story involving leaking JG elbows and .....

Hopefully my new design will look even better and work better