First all grain brew day

[l0nni3]

The brew day started all kinds of nice. I used all my new brew in a bag equipment. I finally got to use a recently acquired 15 gal kettle with a ball valve/filter set up I installed and a homemade immersion chiller. The day was a usual brew day, just waiting for water to boil, until i start to drain the kettle...The filter set up (a braided stainless steel tube) gets clogged immediately which pissed me off. After a while of trying new things I had to put a sanitized wrench in the chilled wort to get it to pour out. Because of this wrench incident I assume the beer will suck, but if it is drinkable I will name it "adjustable wrench".

[Tygo]

Were you using pellet hops? With that kind of setup I found I had to bag pellets or exactly what you experienced will happen. Leaf hops always worked fine though without the bags.

[spiderwrangler]

Were you using pellet hops? With that kind of setup I found I had to bag pellets or exactly what you experienced will happen. Leaf hops always worked fine though without the bags.

That was my thought... how'd the BIAB part go?

[l0nni3]

My set up is a 15 gal aluminum kettle with a ball valve installed, on the inside of the kettle there is a braided stainless steal tube to act as a filter. And the brew in the bag was such a seamless transition. I did not check any of my numbers, but the yeast were active two hours into fermentation.

[spiderwrangler]

So were you using pellets that plugged your braid?

[l0nni3]

Yeah i was using hop pellets.

[brewinhard]

We have all been there in one way or another. Glad to hear you hopefully figured out what the problem was so you can avoid it next time for a more seemless brewday. Each time you brew you will learn more and more about your system which will make each batch better than the last.