Brewie B+ vs Robobrew v3

My brand new B+ arrived last weekend and after a few restarts updated to the latest software, passed the short clean cycle and passed the test brew cycle. I still had one last free Brewie pad so I figured what the heck, let's do this. It was the Rusty Rex pad. I decided to put the B+ head to head with my Robobrew v3 and brew two beers at the same time. I figured my odds were decent that I would get one beer out of the session. After a bricked screen upon start up, and an unplug it "reset", much to my pleasant surprise, the B+ performed flawlessly. As much as I wanted to grab the mash bag and stir it, I let the machine do its thing. Rusty Rex is 8.8 lbs of Munich malt into 6.9 gallons of total water volume. My pre-boil was 1.038 and my post boil was 1.042, so with .12 gal/lb absorption that is 68% efficiency. I am pretty shocked (in a good way) by this result. Based on my CB20 experience, 68-72% is the max one can expect on a two-vessel continuous sparge system.

A few notes:

-Robobrew brew day beat the B+ by over an hour, including cooling. The Robobrew recipe was 13.25 lbs of malt with 70% efficiency at 1.056 pre boil and 1.062 post boil

-B+ boil is very mild; the Robobrew boil is much more of what I would call a rolling boil
-B+ total brew time was 6 hrs, more with clean-up, but it truly was hands off until clean-up
-B+ app worked perfectly and connected whenever I wanted during the brew session - a big upgrade from the first versions
-Clean-up with B+ is much easier than Robobrew
-Robobrew is messier, both during the brewing process and with cleanup
-Robobrew is much more user intensive, mash in, mash out, temp changes, heavy lifting, hop additions, cooling
-I really think a malt pipe will help the B+ with efficiency so that I could stir at mash-in

So, chalk up one successful brew for the B+.  Here are the recipes:

Brewie B+ - Rusty Rex Brewie Pad - American Amber

8.8# Munich malt

60 - Magnum 5 g (0.2 oz), 
30 - Cascade 10g (0.4 oz), 
20 - Cascade 25g (1 oz), 
10 - Cascade 25g (1 oz)

1.042 OG
US-05 yeast

Robobrew v3 - Haze Craze IPA - New England IPA

10# 2-row
1# flaked oats
1# flaked wheat
8 oz carapils
8 oz wheat malt
4 oz honey malt

60 - .5 oz warrior
5   - 1 oz citra
0   - 2 oz mosaic whole cone
0   - 1 oz citra

dry hops
2 oz mosaic (days 3-7 primary)
1 oz citra (days 3-7 primary)
1 oz mosaic (days 7-10 secondary)
2 oz citra (days 7-10 secondary)

28L total water, 5 gallons mash in water, remainder reserved for room temp sparge

Mashed at 152 for 60 mins

1.062 OG
Whitelabs WLP095 Burlington Ale