jdoiv
Well-Known Member
Today was Brewday! The third AG I've done since taking a couple of years off. Starting to get me groove going again.
Here's Mini-Me grinding the grain Saturday afternoon
And here he is getting the water measured!
And checking out the system. Can't wait until he can actually help Pops with some of the work.
Got started around 8:30 or 9am heating the water. Got the MLT water up to strike temp pretty quickly and hit my temp right on the nose. I made Dude's Fat Tire clone. Had almost 26 pounds of grain to dough in. Wanted 154 and got it. It dropped to 153 or so after I stirred the mash at about 15 minutes. Held the 153 the rest of the hour.
Mash pH was just a little off. I treated my mash water with 2 teaspoons of 5.2 and really should have done a full tablespoon. pH meter said I was at 5.6 so I added another teaspoon. Mashed out to 168 by adding heat to the bottom of the tun and started the sparge with 170 degree water. I fly sparge but may try to do a batch sparge next time. The temp in the MLT dropped while sparging even though the sparge water was 170. Sparging took right at an hour, maybe a few minutes less. Stopped the runnings when I hit my target volume of 13 gallons. Reading when I stopped was 1.017. Pre-boil gravity was 1.054. Got the boil started and added hops after skimming the hot break off.
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Here's Mini-Me grinding the grain Saturday afternoon
And here he is getting the water measured!
And checking out the system. Can't wait until he can actually help Pops with some of the work.
Got started around 8:30 or 9am heating the water. Got the MLT water up to strike temp pretty quickly and hit my temp right on the nose. I made Dude's Fat Tire clone. Had almost 26 pounds of grain to dough in. Wanted 154 and got it. It dropped to 153 or so after I stirred the mash at about 15 minutes. Held the 153 the rest of the hour.
Mash pH was just a little off. I treated my mash water with 2 teaspoons of 5.2 and really should have done a full tablespoon. pH meter said I was at 5.6 so I added another teaspoon. Mashed out to 168 by adding heat to the bottom of the tun and started the sparge with 170 degree water. I fly sparge but may try to do a batch sparge next time. The temp in the MLT dropped while sparging even though the sparge water was 170. Sparging took right at an hour, maybe a few minutes less. Stopped the runnings when I hit my target volume of 13 gallons. Reading when I stopped was 1.017. Pre-boil gravity was 1.054. Got the boil started and added hops after skimming the hot break off.
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