turbojet307
Member
Greetings all,
I'm kind of an inexperienced homebrewer. I've got about 11 extract batches under my belt 3 not quite ready yet. All of them drinkable but only couple were actually something I looked forward to drinking. I'm on a quest to make something I really like or give up.
Anyways, I bought all the ingredients to do my first all grain, but didnt really research this out very well. I did try to keep the grain bill small. But I guess I should have gone smaller. For example: I'm limited by my electric stove (right?) and my kettle size so I have no intention, right now, of boiling any more than 4 gallons and it sounds like I should be boiling somewhere around 6 since I'm working with about 8.5lbs of grain.
From a practicality standpoint, I'm planning on mashing with about 1.5gal and batch sparging with maybe 2gal? From what I read I will lose efficiency here so I may just throw in a pound of dme.
I made a yeast starter saturday morning and need to get the show on the road. Any advice would be appreciated. I guess if you have any insight to my approach dont hold back!
It is what it is, and its kind of what I have to work with so rather than stressing out I'm going to go for it. We'll see what happens.
I'm kind of an inexperienced homebrewer. I've got about 11 extract batches under my belt 3 not quite ready yet. All of them drinkable but only couple were actually something I looked forward to drinking. I'm on a quest to make something I really like or give up.
Anyways, I bought all the ingredients to do my first all grain, but didnt really research this out very well. I did try to keep the grain bill small. But I guess I should have gone smaller. For example: I'm limited by my electric stove (right?) and my kettle size so I have no intention, right now, of boiling any more than 4 gallons and it sounds like I should be boiling somewhere around 6 since I'm working with about 8.5lbs of grain.
From a practicality standpoint, I'm planning on mashing with about 1.5gal and batch sparging with maybe 2gal? From what I read I will lose efficiency here so I may just throw in a pound of dme.
I made a yeast starter saturday morning and need to get the show on the road. Any advice would be appreciated. I guess if you have any insight to my approach dont hold back!
It is what it is, and its kind of what I have to work with so rather than stressing out I'm going to go for it. We'll see what happens.