ROBOBREW - Beersmith profile file

Thanks Gash - installed a few days ago so latest version - must have messed something up as I'm pretty sure 39L of sparge is possibly too much! 20L is what I'm looking for as I'm planning on bottling using the counter pressure filler thingy and have 24 bottles ready to go!

Thanks for the help - hopefully I can figure out what's not setup quite right in BeerSmith2!

Ta,

Alex.

Thanks for the tips!

I have the same setup - a robobrew with pump and a fermentasarus - its a good combination.
For my last batch... I added sparge water to take up to the 29 litres as Gash said
It boiled off to the mark around 25 litres (i think)
Anyway - I used the no chill method and put the wort in a 25 Litre food safe cube and added 3 litres of water to that - so I ended up with 23 litres in the fermentasarus
I suppose I could have tipped the robobrew up to get more wort in - didnt think of that

Good to know - will run my first brew tomorrow, fingers crossed!

Thanks,

Alex.

Good luck - I have made a few batches in the fermentasuras now and 2 AG beers in the robobrew.
I don't think you can make to many mistakes with the robobrew - i have found it very easy to use - going for batch number 3 this weekend

Brew seemed to go well, got 24L out (tipping the RB) with the post boil SG spot on to the recipe at 1.055.

Have a heat belt on my fermentasaurus - I can't see much activity but I guess it takes the yeast a while to multiply and get cracking!?

The recipe called for a 14 day fermentation period, not sure what that will come down to under pressure - do I just take a sample when activity is down (under pressure so assume I can do that without contaminating) and call it quits when it hits the target FG?

Also - with the fermentasaurus, did you discard the trub/yeast using the collection bottles, or just leave it alone till the end?

Cheers folks - thanks for all the tips - on my way now I reckon!

Alex

Now I reckon this is where it gets interesting -I know what I have done - but I'm not sure whether this is right or wrong to be honest....

I did a brew in the fermentasaurus under pressure when the weather was warmer without a heat belt and used a spunding valve so that pressure would max out at 100kpa. Warmer temps are bad for yeast and therefore beer but apparently under pressure you can afford a few degrees warmer - and as a result it brews out quicker.

I have removed the trub on some of the brews - but I also did this as I dry hopped using the collection bottle - word of warning If you dont release the pressure before you remove the collection bottle -kaboom - mess everywhere ( spoken through experience)

The beauty of the fermentasaurus is you see the krasuen form and the activity occuring - normally within 24 hours (in my case anyway). I also just wait 2 weeks and generally dont take sg readings - I know thats bad but it has worked for me so far - I am only doing ales and keep the temp constant (easy in winter with heat belt - temp control ) at about 18/19 degrees C

24 litres from the RB - neat -assume you had the boil at 29 litres - for how long? - Ive been doing mine at 90 mins so I get the full 60 minute hop addition when its well and truly boiling.

oh yeah 1 other thing - my last batch..... It was under pressure - no spunding valve this time. So i am not sure how much psi/kpa it was but definitely more than 100kpa. I released some pressure before transferring the fermented beer into kegs - but let it out to fast and it stirred the whole lot up inside the fermentasarus which made my filter work extra hard - and now I need a new one.

btw - I think we sort of hijacked the robobrew beersmith profile thread.... :/

Hi Mate,

Do you know how I import this profile so it is available in my equipment in Beersmith 2?

Thanks,
David