brewed up my first APA yesterday, i'm kinda going for a mighty arrow like APA... used cascade, amarillo, and EKG. hit everything almost exactly, got to use my new beastly wort chiller and used the electric heatsticks for strike/sparge water, i'll never use gas again for that. i considered using them for the boil, but i'm just starting to get comfortable with my evaporation rate with the gas, so i stuck to it for this one.
took down the tallest tier on my brewstand to make using the heatsticks easier, plus i almost always measure into a bucket and then pour it into my mash tun anyway (i don't trust my sight glass).
heatsticks in action (heated 11 gallons of water from ~55 to 180 in just under an hour).
gratuitous shot of my first lager (munich helles) doing a diacetyl rest:
1st runnings:
hop additions: 60 (magnum), 10 (cascade, amarillo, EKG), 0 (amarillo, EKG). i'll dry hop with amarillo/EKG also.
new wort chiller:
pitched the yeast around 3:30 yesterday and this morning already had a nice krausen and healthy fermentation rockin... looking forward to this one!
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