Woo hoo another first all grain

Just finished my first all grain, a Scottish wee heavy. May have been a bit ambitious for my first but it was for a friend. Mashed 15.8 lbs of grain and hit a mash temp of 153 on the button. Fly sparaged with 170 deg water and according to my calc I got a 67.9 efficiency post boil. Had a little problem with boilovers due to the amount of wort collected (7.25 gals) for a 90 min boil but collected 4.5 galons and topped off to 5 before taking my gravity reading. color looks good and it smells great. All in all, a great first experience that I wanted to share since SWMBO could care less.

OG ended up being 1.075 so its gonna be a nice big beer.

Craig

Congrats on the first successful AG! It sounds like it mostly went off with out any hiccups? I was pretty excited after my first AG batch...greater accomplishment I think (in my mind). Enjoy the new found skills... Once you hone your system and brew day schedule, the beer only improves!

Nice. Congrats on your 1st There's no turning back now.

I've got a good stock of extract batches in the bottles, and will be starting my conversion to AG over the next month. I admire your ambition with the wee heavy; don't think I'm going that far with my first batch. I'm going to keep the training wheels on for a few batches, probably start with a MW Amarillo Ale kit, a beer we enjoy, and one I've made in extract enough times to give me a good baseline to compare to AG. We just returned from visiting our son and his family on the East coast, and I was able to have some hands-on doing an AG batch of ESB. I got a propane burner at a good price, now it's time to start the cooler conversion. Wish me luck.....