we brewed up an oatmeal stout this afternoon. mashed at 154.9. finally got a chance to try out the fermenator. we couldn't get the ventur pump to work after an hour of testing and messing around with it so the therminator was unusable. we probably could have gravity fed it, but i suppose i had one too many to think of that when put on the spot. we ended up setting the kettle at the top of the stairs and running a hose just long enough to drop the chilled wort down and into the top of the fermenator, which worked way better than trying to carry the full fermenator down the stairs. once the chilled wort sat for about 15 mins we opened the bottom dump valve and collected about a quart worth of cold break. took an original gravity of 1.055, then pumped some pure oxygen and hooked up the blow-off.















update: 02.20.11
woke up this morning to a beautiful site. the oatmeal stout is currently fermenting spot on at 68 and the 3/8" blow-off is working like a champ.





-bake