blueturtle00
Member
Hey All,
Here's my step by step process with the steam kettle.
So here's to starting the day, have all the grains ground and the 60L fermenter sterilizing.
Just started the mash, i brought the strike water to 155 degrees, added the 35 pounds of grains, the water then dropped to 135 degrees. Took 15 minutes to bring to my target mashing temperature of 153.
The mash ended up spiking at 160 degrees (7 more than planned) but still worked out just fine. Found that once i hit the target temp, the steam kettle kept raising the temp even when off (which kicked ass for boiling by the way)
Still mashed for the full 120 minutes, then a mashout at 170 degrees for 10 minutes.
Here's my mash-tun setup, it worked great!
So i sparged at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Yield before the boil was 19 gallons
With a pre-boil OG of 1.050
Did the standard 1 hour boil, adding 3 different hops
2 pots in an ice bath, one with a coil wort chiller
Third pot chilling.
Got to 70 degrees in under an hour.
Ended up with a OG of 1.078! my target was 1.060
Also hit the 15 gallon mark right on the nose!
here's the 60L fermenter in action.
Here's to the 7 week wait!
Here's my step by step process with the steam kettle.
So here's to starting the day, have all the grains ground and the 60L fermenter sterilizing.
Just started the mash, i brought the strike water to 155 degrees, added the 35 pounds of grains, the water then dropped to 135 degrees. Took 15 minutes to bring to my target mashing temperature of 153.
The mash ended up spiking at 160 degrees (7 more than planned) but still worked out just fine. Found that once i hit the target temp, the steam kettle kept raising the temp even when off (which kicked ass for boiling by the way)
Still mashed for the full 120 minutes, then a mashout at 170 degrees for 10 minutes.
Here's my mash-tun setup, it worked great!
So i sparged at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Yield before the boil was 19 gallons
With a pre-boil OG of 1.050
Did the standard 1 hour boil, adding 3 different hops
2 pots in an ice bath, one with a coil wort chiller
Third pot chilling.
Got to 70 degrees in under an hour.
Ended up with a OG of 1.078! my target was 1.060
Also hit the 15 gallon mark right on the nose!
here's the 60L fermenter in action.
Here's to the 7 week wait!