Grainfather

[DEMPSEY]

Gotta say this grainfather is so easy to use it am very happy with it. I brewed today and from  crushed grains to pitched yeast to completely washed up and put away,all in 5 hours. And I did meself a fry for lunch in between . Also my numbers match in with my beersmith too.

[mick02]

Gotta say this grainfather is so easy to use it am very happy with it. I brewed today and from  crushed grains to pitched yeast to completely washed up and put away,all in 5 hours. And I did meself a fry for lunch in between . Also my numbers match in with my beersmith too.

I have to agree, my efficiency is excellent and I'm nearly always within 1 or two points of the numbers in beersmith. Great piece of equipment.

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[mick02]

Android Grainfather Connect app was updated today in Play store. Updates include improvements in importing BeerXML files and an increase of compatible apps to import from (Gmail attachments was one that was mentioned)

[DEMPSEY]

I cannot see why I would bother with the Bluetooth upgrade yoke for grainfather. All it appears to be able to do is allow you to sit watching telly while the mash is on.

[molc]

Isn't that enough of a reason?

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

It's a great piece of kit, brewing with it right now,while making dinner, doing the bins, drawing with kids, feeding the dogs ....

[Leann ull]

Just round in Fishjams, it's like fast food, he just dials in and it's delivered

[Bubbles]

That's impressive.

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

Just round in Fishjams, it's like like food, he just dials in and it's delivered

And I never got to show you how it operates via your phone either

[DEMPSEY]

So it washes then

[mcooney]

Started a brew today (Habenero IPA), had grain crushed , mash water heated and suddenly realised my overflow pipe was missing. Hopefully it turns up. Luckily I'd a bit of copper pipe in my shed so some hacksawing and filing a had a sort of replacement. Didn't grip like the real one so had to cut it exactly to the length of my grain bill. In the end went too short and had to pull about 700 grams from a 6kg grain bill. Almost met my gravity though .

[Leann ull]

Homebrewers are Mcguyvers through and through, nice save

[DaveG]

Thinking of buying one of these and I have a question.

I currently BIAB in a 33 litre pot - not so far off Grainfather capacity when you knock some capacity off for the lid etc.

The standard mash water formula for the GF is Grain Weight x 2.7 + 3.5 so, for a 4.5kg batch this would be 15.65 litres of strike water. I would normally use 26 litres with a batch that size then dunk sparge with about 5 litres.

So - why wouldn't I continue doing this in the Grainfather, obviously adjusting for capacity?

[Leann ull]

Grain to water ratio in recircs is anywhere between 3-5l per kilo, 7 for biab, I've done 3 and 6 and there is marginal difference in total efficiency (more efficient high side) or on taste.

[DEMPSEY]

The grainfather numbers are correct and when you add your sparge you will end up with 28 liters before boil.