I'm sure this topic has been well covered but I did my first AG yesterday and I want to check the method I used made sense.
The part that I'm still not too sure about is sparging. I have minimal equipment so I looked around and came up with a method that seemed right for me.
Here's what I did:
Beglian Farmhouse Ale
15 litre batch
2500g larger Malt 75%
500g wheat malt 15%
300g sugar 10%
For a mash tun I used a 5 gal cooler with a fine mesh bag inside.
Mash in 8 litres at 65c for 75mins
Mash out 5 litres at 75c for 10mins
Then I poured off all the wort into another vessel. I then added all my sparge water (another 8 litres at 75c) and let it sit in the mash tun for 10mins before mixing that with the rest of the wort.
I got a gravity of 1.030 before boil and 1.050 OG. Bang on what beer smith said.
Tasted wort today and it has strong taste of cooked corn and is a little astringent.
here's my questions:
Is this a good way to sparge or should i just use the "no sparge" method or should i split it into two stages like a batch sparge?
Should i bother with the Mash out?
Beer Smith said to hit mash out temp i should add water that is 93 c this seemed high, what happens if your water is too hot?
Anyway hope thats not too much for one post. As an anxious AG newbie any help in refining my proccess would be much appreciated.
The part that I'm still not too sure about is sparging. I have minimal equipment so I looked around and came up with a method that seemed right for me.
Here's what I did:
Beglian Farmhouse Ale
15 litre batch
2500g larger Malt 75%
500g wheat malt 15%
300g sugar 10%
For a mash tun I used a 5 gal cooler with a fine mesh bag inside.
Mash in 8 litres at 65c for 75mins
Mash out 5 litres at 75c for 10mins
Then I poured off all the wort into another vessel. I then added all my sparge water (another 8 litres at 75c) and let it sit in the mash tun for 10mins before mixing that with the rest of the wort.
I got a gravity of 1.030 before boil and 1.050 OG. Bang on what beer smith said.
Tasted wort today and it has strong taste of cooked corn and is a little astringent.
here's my questions:
Is this a good way to sparge or should i just use the "no sparge" method or should i split it into two stages like a batch sparge?
Should i bother with the Mash out?
Beer Smith said to hit mash out temp i should add water that is 93 c this seemed high, what happens if your water is too hot?
Anyway hope thats not too much for one post. As an anxious AG newbie any help in refining my proccess would be much appreciated.