Early to bed.
Early to rise.
Makes a guy
Badly disorganized!
Made my PRA today. Started at 8:30 a.m. with forgetting to put the bazooka filter in the mash tun. And no 5.2 pH buffer. Reaslized my error just before dumping the grain into the tun. Poured the hot water into the kettle and added 5.2. Put the bazooka into the mash tun and poured the water back in. Of course, it's now only 150F. Re-heat to 170 and add the grain. Perfect: 154F
It's really cold in the garage, so I take the mash inside. Still ends up at 145F at 30 minutes. Decide to decoct and scooped a couple quarts out with a strainer. Boiled it, back in the mash tun & stirred. 152F Good enough.
Duh! Forgot to heat sparge water. Get that hot & into the cooler. Argh! Forgot to allow for the cooler being at 35F like the rest of the garage. Sample Old Bog Water, Palmer Porter and CoC Brown.
Much better!
Put some water on to boil to warm up the sparge water.
Drain first run to kettle & start cooking. Add 5.2 to sparge water along with boiling water, 172F OK. Put first sparge water in mash tun & stir. 165F good. Drain to kettle & add water for third run.
Kettle looks full enough so I start the boil, 90 minutes total. Start weighing hops. Not enough EKG. Substitute 0.5 oz Cascades for bittering at 60 minutes. Miss 45 minute EKG add, add at 30 minutes along with Irish Moss. Make 15 minute add ok.
Cool & run to fermenter. Way short. Areate and pitch yeast anyway.
Drain third run to kettle and boil to protein break. Cool and add to fermenter.
5.75 gallons at 1072. Tastes fine. There's a new flavor, probably due to corn.
Relax and have a pint of Wet hopped IPA.
Edit: Drive to store and get the molasses!
Early to rise.
Makes a guy
Badly disorganized!
Made my PRA today. Started at 8:30 a.m. with forgetting to put the bazooka filter in the mash tun. And no 5.2 pH buffer. Reaslized my error just before dumping the grain into the tun. Poured the hot water into the kettle and added 5.2. Put the bazooka into the mash tun and poured the water back in. Of course, it's now only 150F. Re-heat to 170 and add the grain. Perfect: 154F
It's really cold in the garage, so I take the mash inside. Still ends up at 145F at 30 minutes. Decide to decoct and scooped a couple quarts out with a strainer. Boiled it, back in the mash tun & stirred. 152F Good enough.
Duh! Forgot to heat sparge water. Get that hot & into the cooler. Argh! Forgot to allow for the cooler being at 35F like the rest of the garage. Sample Old Bog Water, Palmer Porter and CoC Brown.
Much better!
Put some water on to boil to warm up the sparge water.
Drain first run to kettle & start cooking. Add 5.2 to sparge water along with boiling water, 172F OK. Put first sparge water in mash tun & stir. 165F good. Drain to kettle & add water for third run.
Kettle looks full enough so I start the boil, 90 minutes total. Start weighing hops. Not enough EKG. Substitute 0.5 oz Cascades for bittering at 60 minutes. Miss 45 minute EKG add, add at 30 minutes along with Irish Moss. Make 15 minute add ok.
Cool & run to fermenter. Way short. Areate and pitch yeast anyway.
Drain third run to kettle and boil to protein break. Cool and add to fermenter.
5.75 gallons at 1072. Tastes fine. There's a new flavor, probably due to corn.
Relax and have a pint of Wet hopped IPA.
Edit: Drive to store and get the molasses!