Hugh Heffe is ON!

The Pol · 05-26-2007, 05:44 PM

Just mashed in at 124F (.9qt/lb) for my protien rest. Boiling the next infusion to rest it at 152F (total 1.48qt/lb)... gotta have it in there in about 5 minutes. This heffe rocks... my starter is in the ferment fridge at high krausen just waiting to chew on some wheat!

Pol

The Pol · 05-26-2007, 06:05 PM

Just dumped in my second infusion, resting at 152F... heating the sparge water now. Two more hours and I will be boiling... I generally rest at 152F for an hour, and then the sparge generally takes about an hour. I am really loving this new system... never really had to "dial it in"... it just works. I have more free time now when I am brewing than I have ever had.

ALSO, making starters rocks because the yeast is ready to go as soon as your wort is cooled, no rehydrating and cooling and yadda yadda...

Pol

The Pol · 05-26-2007, 06:35 PM

Sparge water is getting topped up... final infusion to rest at 168F for 10-15 minutes is just about ready, and just in time. I am taking pics and will have them on my photobucket site here when it is complete...

The Pol · 05-26-2007, 09:11 PM

I ran off 7.5 gallons at 1.041... first hop addition is in, second is coming in about 10 minutes. SO far everything looks exactly the same as my last Hugh Heffe brew...

Pics and video coming

The Pol · 05-26-2007, 10:46 PM

Well it looks like I achieved about 79% eff again... though this time I ran off alot more wort, boiled for just over an hour, ended up with a considerable ammout more in my fermentor and will have a slightly less alcoholic heffe this time around. Expected FG is 1.011 with 4.55% ABV. Starter is pitched, just fashioning the blow off tube now... sweeet brew day.

Pol

**Yuri_Rage** · 05-26-2007, 11:08 PM

Sounds like a great hefe to me! Congrats on a successful brew day!

I hope the hefe I'm doing tomorrow goes as well as yours did.

The Pol · 05-26-2007, 11:41 PM

I am sure that it will go great. It took me 6 hours from start to finish with cleanup. NOW, if I had not had friends over I would have cleaned as I went and saved some time. The brewing process was fast, my new system is really hands off and allows me to screw around. Planned my camping trip for next week today while I was mashing!

Pol

The Pol · 05-27-2007, 12:42 AM

All the pics are uploaded here:

http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u189/PolTavern/

There is a Slide show called 5/26/07 Heffe and some videos in my album from today too... enjoy!!

Pol

VermVerm · 05-27-2007, 01:28 AM

Checked out the pics it all looks nice. I just kegged 5 gal of a Hefe with a very similar recipe. Now the hard part...the waiting. This was my first hefe I was amazed by the amount of absorbtion during mash. I had to add an extra gallon of h2o that I didn't expect just to get it up par. Do you know if it is the wheat that absorbs so much?

Beerrific · 05-27-2007, 01:29 AM

I am curious at this too, I am making a hefe in the next few weeks. I am probably going to use 70% wheat/30% pilsner. VermVerm how much did you loose total?