I'm finally bugged enough about this to post and see if others have had this frustration:
I'm on a 15-bbl system, fairly new to it, and can't seem to maintain a clear runnings out of my mash/lauter tun. I get nice clear wort after a 20-30 min vorlauf, start lautering all is good. About 2/3 of the way through, little chunks of grain start showing up in my runnings. I can usually recirc to get rid of them, but why do they show up in the first place? I've played around with the mill gap, the runoff speed, the vorlauf speed, raking the top of the grain bed, etc. and nothing seems to change it. If it makes any difference to anyone, I seem to have high-gravity runnings for a while and then a major drop in the gravity of the runnings, rather than a steady decline. The clarity issue seems to coincide with the drop in gravity.
Tearing my hair out -- or would be if I had any. Hoping someone has some experience with this.
I'm on a 15-bbl system, fairly new to it, and can't seem to maintain a clear runnings out of my mash/lauter tun. I get nice clear wort after a 20-30 min vorlauf, start lautering all is good. About 2/3 of the way through, little chunks of grain start showing up in my runnings. I can usually recirc to get rid of them, but why do they show up in the first place? I've played around with the mill gap, the runoff speed, the vorlauf speed, raking the top of the grain bed, etc. and nothing seems to change it. If it makes any difference to anyone, I seem to have high-gravity runnings for a while and then a major drop in the gravity of the runnings, rather than a steady decline. The clarity issue seems to coincide with the drop in gravity.
Tearing my hair out -- or would be if I had any. Hoping someone has some experience with this.
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