BREWHA Equipment Co Ltd. BIAC, User Manual

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BIAC User Manual Safety
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Note 2: When brewing low-volume batches, it is also important to be careful that
the element is not exposed during the boil. To ensure that the water level will not
drop to the point where the element is exposed, during filling you need to first
observe/calculate the volume at which the element is fully covered (approximately
20% of the total volume of the fermenter). Then add 10-20% volume as a safety
buffer, and have this as your minimum water/wort level in the vessel. Then check
all of your recipes and ensure that at no point during heating will the volume level
ever be below this. And it is always best practice to never be too far from your
equipment on brew day. There have been reports of customers leaving during the
boil to run a few errands and returning to find their element dry-fired and ruined.
Note 3: The same rules apply during fermentation as during mash and boil—keep
the element covered with water at all times. When using the element to keep the
beer warm during fermentation, it is important to keep the power output on the
Power Controller set to less than 3% to ensure that yeast that sticks to the element
does not scorch. This will also likely prevent dry-firing the element, as at such low
power output the heat can dissipate. One should, however, still ensure the element
is fully covered at all times.
Note 4: To get the most longevity out of your elements, be sure to clean them
thoroughly after each brew. Once the beer is out of the fermenter, remove the
elements and clean them well with a stainless safe scrubber. A flat scrub pad can
be fed around the element and moved up and down the element to ensure all sides
of the element are thoroughly cleaned. Cleaning right away, before yeast has a
chance to dry on the element, is certainly easiest, and removing all yeast/soil from
the element is the best thing you can do to ensure your element won’t scorch on
the next brew.
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