My machine works well on the stock offset of 7. I test w/Scace - did you sat you set the offset to 18? I would think that would make the brew water that much cooler. ----- Original Message ----- From: "cgfan" <[email protected]> To: "Brewtus" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:45 AM Subject: Re: Brew Temp problem on BII
> > Thanks for the input, Shaun. Though my issues w/my roasts tasting > lighter than the actual bean color was with my most recent roasts, and > not with my prior roasts (though only a handful) on the Behmor. > > I honestly haven't seen any forum traffic regarding the roasts tasting > lighter on the Behmor; what I do see plenty of are issues of it > roasting too light, the latter which can be fixed with a simple user > hack. (Roast less than what you tell the Behmor.) By chance do you > recall where you saw these discussions? Somehow I must have missed > the thread. > > I'll do some testing w/some off-the-shelf beans that's in my "non-home- > roast" rotation just to test the Behmor hypothesis. I guess I could > fire up some of my older roasters as well... > > However it still remains that there is this huge gap between the water > temp reading at the portafilter and what might be considered proper > brewing temps. Understood that complicating matters is not having a > well-instrumented setup, such as a Scace device. > > What methods are others using to gauge their brew temps, and are users > able to close the gap to a desired brew temp by offset alone? No > matter how hard I try I cannot seem to close this gap. Is there an > easy way to instrument the p/f in a way that closely reflects the > actual temps seen by the puck? > > Again I normally adjust temps by taste alone and am only taking this > temporary foray into actual temp readings since I was not able to get > my shots out of the sour zone. I won't be as perturbed by what seems > to be too low brew temp readings at the p/f if it still results in a > decent tasting shot. As for now the shots are still coming out sour, > and my meters are reading too low a temp at the p/f... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
