philthebrewer
Apprentice
If you are reading this then you have probably bought or are thinking of buying a Braumeister brewing kit and are wondering how to get the best out of it. I have now been using my Braumeister 20l for 5 years and have brewed around 50 different beers. 47 have been excellent. Of the remainder I have had 2 equipment failures (1 impeller failure and 1 thermostat breakdown) both of which were quickly fixed by replacement parts from my supplier (Humlegården in Sweden) with great support from Speidel. The remaining 1 failure was my own fault due to insufficient sanitation. The best recipes I have now put into the beersmith recipe cloud. I would love to also put the equipment and mashing profiles in the cloud as separate items but this is not possible, so I am making this post.
There is always a demand for the equipment profile from new starters with Braumeister, so I post this here as my last posting was in 2011.
I had been hoping that someone else (maybe Speidel) would create a set of mashing profiles for different types of beers as the great strength of the Braumeister equipment is its ability to perform multi-step mashing with ease. However, since nobody else has come along I will publish my own. After much experimentation and reading I have come up with the attached 4 mash profiles for full body, lager, light body and wheat beer. They do produce a different outcome and I would love to get some feedback from others.
Ideally I would love to see postings here from anyone who has improved on these equipment settings or mashing profiles or has other specialty mashing profiles to add.
happy brewing
Philip
2020 Update on grain absorption and water profiles:
I have just started using my Braumeister again after a 3 year holiday (moved to Italy) and have updated to Beersmith 3.
I have always had problems with both water volumes (too much sparging recommended) and estimated Final Gravity (too low). So I decided to do some internet searching and see if anybody has solved these problems. Good news:
1. Speidel have released a much better set of instructions here: https://www.speidelbraumeister.com/ They also recommend starting the mash in at 60 degrees C (140F) in order to reduce the cleaning of the heating coils (have not tried that)
2. You can adjust Beersmith to solve the excessive sparging recommendation.
This is done by either editing your mash profile by ticking the box "Brew in a Bag" or by going to Tools/Options/Advanced Options and adjusting the Grain Absorption down from 0.96 to something lower. I just copied the BIAB 0.586 number as it produces the correct sparging volumes for my typical brew. See attached screenshot. I prefer this method as Beersmith then reminds me to do some sparging. I only sparge around 2 litres even if Beersmith says to do more, but I just add the extra as top up water.
3. You can adjust the FG estimate in the same Advanced Options screen by unticking the box "Adjust for Mash Temperature" (see same screenshot). When I do this I get FG estimates exactly matching my FG outcomes.
Hope this helps
Philip
There is always a demand for the equipment profile from new starters with Braumeister, so I post this here as my last posting was in 2011.
I had been hoping that someone else (maybe Speidel) would create a set of mashing profiles for different types of beers as the great strength of the Braumeister equipment is its ability to perform multi-step mashing with ease. However, since nobody else has come along I will publish my own. After much experimentation and reading I have come up with the attached 4 mash profiles for full body, lager, light body and wheat beer. They do produce a different outcome and I would love to get some feedback from others.
Ideally I would love to see postings here from anyone who has improved on these equipment settings or mashing profiles or has other specialty mashing profiles to add.
happy brewing
Philip
2020 Update on grain absorption and water profiles:
I have just started using my Braumeister again after a 3 year holiday (moved to Italy) and have updated to Beersmith 3.
I have always had problems with both water volumes (too much sparging recommended) and estimated Final Gravity (too low). So I decided to do some internet searching and see if anybody has solved these problems. Good news:
1. Speidel have released a much better set of instructions here: https://www.speidelbraumeister.com/ They also recommend starting the mash in at 60 degrees C (140F) in order to reduce the cleaning of the heating coils (have not tried that)
2. You can adjust Beersmith to solve the excessive sparging recommendation.
This is done by either editing your mash profile by ticking the box "Brew in a Bag" or by going to Tools/Options/Advanced Options and adjusting the Grain Absorption down from 0.96 to something lower. I just copied the BIAB 0.586 number as it produces the correct sparging volumes for my typical brew. See attached screenshot. I prefer this method as Beersmith then reminds me to do some sparging. I only sparge around 2 litres even if Beersmith says to do more, but I just add the extra as top up water.
3. You can adjust the FG estimate in the same Advanced Options screen by unticking the box "Adjust for Mash Temperature" (see same screenshot). When I do this I get FG estimates exactly matching my FG outcomes.
Hope this helps
Philip