Hey, I'm William with Northern Brewer,
and today we're going to be checking out the new G40 from Grainfather.
Just unboxed it about ten minutes ago so we're pretty excited to take a look and jump right in.
Couple things you'll probably notice if you're familiar with the G30,
the pump has been moved inside; it's all down in the base. Here,
the black ring, everything below is going to be the pump and the heater, and all the
electronics is down below there now. So, nothing on the outside really to bang or get caught.
When you go to assemble it, one of the first things you're going to put in is the hop filter.
A pretty big upgrade from G30 if you're familiar with that, otherwise it's just
like the G70. It's gonna fit down in there nice and snug. You just push that in place.
A big, big difference from the G30 then is also the
mash basket, also kind of modeled after their G70.
A lot of people are going to notice it's just one bottom. There's no top plate for this,
it's not necessarily needed. And, it's got rolled edges so you can just slide it right in there;
no extra seal to go around the outside at all. You also notice that there are more perforations
in this. That just helps with the mash recirculation, keep the temp nice and even.
Same thing along the sides here, there's actually more perforations up in through here, again
just to help the mash recirculate, keep an even temperature with the PID controller. So, that just
drops in there and then drops down into the Grainfather.
The other nice thing on this grain basket is the handle, it's got a point here for pulley system.
Obviously if you're getting into these bigger sizes like this it
might be nice to have a pulley or just a friend to help lift this.
The control box is Wi-Fi so you can use it anywhere that you have wireless connection,
not limited to just Bluetooth range. It's got a nice waterproof connection here. It
just pushes in and then screws together. Then this is just a magnet mount; it's got two
posts on the back and just slides right on. That's pretty nice and easy.
A few other things that might be familiar. The chiller is the same one as a G30,
perfectly sized for this one. I know that they did look at the G70 chiller to see if
they wanted to upsize it, and it wasn't needed. Then you have the recirculating
tube, which attaches to the inside here, pump from here up and over for recirculating the mash.
Part of the pump recirculation includes integrated sight glass into it for you. They
have both gallons and liters. This one has the gallons out -- most of the U.S. ones should ship
with the gallons out. Every gallon from zero to 12 is marked. If you want liters you can loosen
this nut up here and actually spin the sight glass around to have the liters showing forward.
Power cord, very important. Got a nice bunch of little spare parts; I haven't really figured out
what those are yet, but they're spare parts so hopefully we don't need them.
It also comes with a whole bunch of different attachments for the chiller for chilling.
Of course you get the instructions, and then you get the nice big glass lid that fits on
there for chilling later on. You’ll never want to brew with that on because it gets pretty hot.
I'm excited. You know, the mash basket is a nice improvement in my opinion. It's a little
bit -- I'm gonna set this off the side here -- just a little bit easier to assemble with just
dropping it in there and that rolled edge. One thing I'm really excited for is the hop filter.
We all love hops -- more and more and more hops -- so I'm excited to see how
this does and performs. It completely covers the bottom so no hops are going to sneak by at all.
I'm just bringing this back over.
If you're familiar with the G30 units they have an extra silicone seal on there,
just so no grain gets down through, and they have a top plate. This is just two pieces set together.
I'm excited just to see the quicker setup and teardown, and
to be honest, less parts to clean because that's the worst part about brewing.
It does have the same feet style for the grain basket as the G70.
It just lifts up there and sets in. Actually now that I see that I really
like that it's not tall. The G30 tends to add a lot of height. I don't know why but,
I kind of like the look of it being a little bit shorter, squatty maybe.
Another big change is the controller. Bluetooth is great but there's a limit to that this is
going to be wireless, so for some reason I'm on a plane and I want a brew I could probably do that.
[laughs] I'm just excited for the connectivity, so I can be out in the yard with the dogs and still
be paying attention -- not that I'm going to leave this unsupervised, but --
The big difference is for a lot of people these are 220 volt, which means more power,
quicker heat time. So, hopefully they're going to really drop that heat time down because
no one likes to watch a pot of water boil. And really, you know, the more time you can save
heating it's just a shorter brew day, so that can save you quite a bit of time on your hobby.
We're pretty excited to be going over this today with you. We partnered with the BSG
and Bevie / Grainfather to get one of the first ones out there to show it to you guys. We really
like the brand, we believe in it. We're going to be jumping into a brew day tomorrow. They gave,
the grandfather recommends or states that 28 pounds is probably the upper limit for
the grain bill on this. We're going to be doing one of our bigger five gallon batches,
Dragon’s Silk Stout, and that's comes in at 21.5 pounds of grain, so perfect one to test it on
in my opinion. Pretty stoked for that brew day. Make sure to follow us so you can see everything
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