Jaeger48
Well-Known Member
So I was going to post about how I pre-heated my mash tun significantly better this time over my first but decided to go a little high with my strike water because I had plenty of grain in this recipe. I dropped in my thermometer and had a good 152 mash. I checked back 10 minutes later to give a light stir and pulled out my thermometer. It tapped the side of the tun jumped to just over 160. I added cold water to bring it back down, stirred, and then nailed my temp.
Damage done, I'm sure it ****ed my enzymes because my SG was 1.048 rather than the 1.068 I would have gotten. I was just at 50% attenuation and feeling pissed off when I decided to relax and instead of hopping and pitching like the Oktoberfast recipe (I was planning on a helles but with s-05 at lower temps) I'm going to hop it like an easy drinking APA. It'll have more biscuity munich characteristic than normal but it should still be ok.
Next batch I'll know to only do the pre-heat and not the overshoot.
RDWHAHB
Damage done, I'm sure it ****ed my enzymes because my SG was 1.048 rather than the 1.068 I would have gotten. I was just at 50% attenuation and feeling pissed off when I decided to relax and instead of hopping and pitching like the Oktoberfast recipe (I was planning on a helles but with s-05 at lower temps) I'm going to hop it like an easy drinking APA. It'll have more biscuity munich characteristic than normal but it should still be ok.
Next batch I'll know to only do the pre-heat and not the overshoot.
RDWHAHB