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# Grainfather... unboxing and first brewday gallery
- URL: https://accidentalis.com/grainfather-unboxing-and-first-brewday-gallery/
- Published: 2015-08-15T01:01:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-20T14:53:16.000Z
- Author: Matthew Chrispen
- Tags: Rambling, Uncategorized, air conditioning, brewday, cleaning, experiment, Grainfather, practice, unboxing, #Migrated-1763650309909, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-20 08:51, #Import 2025-11-20 09:06

I bought a Grainfather to let me continue to brew in the very hot summers here in Texas. Below are pictures of the unboxing and the first brewday.

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There have been some concerns about the boil strength. So while this took a bit longer to come up to boil (which I can shorten by starting to heat up during sparge, I am pretty happy with the boil strength. Took a very short video - below.

https://vimeo.com/136356399

First brewday - learning things - still hit target volumes and gravity! Cheers!