TheBigBrit
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Having been hanging out here over the last couple of months absorbing as much as I could, it finally came time for me to make my first homebrew. I followed in other peoples foot steps and decided to make EdWort's Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale.
I doughed in and hit 151 F, close enough for me to be happy and not mess with anything. Added the extra water before doing my first run off and hit 157 F, I'm not sure what temperature I should have hit at this stage?
Everything seemed to be going fine until I realised that I had no easy way of keeping my sparge water at the right temperature, while my boiling pot contained my first runnings. So I ended up using water that was around 168 F instead of 175 F, and hit 162 F in the grain bed for the batch sparge. What temperature should I have hit here?
I got lucky with my 10 gallon cooler, with stainless steel braid and didn't have problems with a stuck sparge.
Continued with the boil, and had a couple of boil overs, I can see I will need a larger pot at some point!
All said and done my pre boil gravity was 1.049, OG 1.052 giving an efficiency of around 76%, can't complain about that.
I believe EdWort uses 1.33 quarts per pound of grain, having had good efficiency using that amount of water should I continue to use it for future brews?
Thanks EdWort for the great recipe!
I doughed in and hit 151 F, close enough for me to be happy and not mess with anything. Added the extra water before doing my first run off and hit 157 F, I'm not sure what temperature I should have hit at this stage?
Everything seemed to be going fine until I realised that I had no easy way of keeping my sparge water at the right temperature, while my boiling pot contained my first runnings. So I ended up using water that was around 168 F instead of 175 F, and hit 162 F in the grain bed for the batch sparge. What temperature should I have hit here?
I got lucky with my 10 gallon cooler, with stainless steel braid and didn't have problems with a stuck sparge.
Continued with the boil, and had a couple of boil overs, I can see I will need a larger pot at some point!
All said and done my pre boil gravity was 1.049, OG 1.052 giving an efficiency of around 76%, can't complain about that.
I believe EdWort uses 1.33 quarts per pound of grain, having had good efficiency using that amount of water should I continue to use it for future brews?
Thanks EdWort for the great recipe!