Hi all-
So Sunday was a super spur-of-the-moment brew. The wife and I were heading up to my folks' house to have dinner and bake cookies/make fudge (for the girls) and watch football (for the guys). Anyway, I hadn't seen my brother in a while, so I called him up in LA and asked if he wanted to come down and learn how to brew and we met at the parents house and had a great brew day, made an all-cascade pale with 2-row and victory.
Anyway, I calculated my strike temperature incorrectly and ended up mashing in at 158ish- mashed that way for about half an hour. When I went outside to stir and check the temp, I realized my mistake and stirred it like a madman until it was 152 and let it mash for another hour.
Anyway, that's fermenting away happily right now and I'm not worried about it being beer (got good conversion, plenty of sugar) but I didn't have my hydrometer so it's a bit of a mystery beer. Projected OG should have been about 1.060 at 75% efficiency, which is about what I get using single batch sparge BIAB.
Do you guys know of any commercial pales like this mashed very high? I'm interested to see what this beer is going to be like when it's done. Have you ever done one like this before intentionally or by accident? I'd love to hear how you guys think this thing will turn out.
So Sunday was a super spur-of-the-moment brew. The wife and I were heading up to my folks' house to have dinner and bake cookies/make fudge (for the girls) and watch football (for the guys). Anyway, I hadn't seen my brother in a while, so I called him up in LA and asked if he wanted to come down and learn how to brew and we met at the parents house and had a great brew day, made an all-cascade pale with 2-row and victory.
Anyway, I calculated my strike temperature incorrectly and ended up mashing in at 158ish- mashed that way for about half an hour. When I went outside to stir and check the temp, I realized my mistake and stirred it like a madman until it was 152 and let it mash for another hour.
Anyway, that's fermenting away happily right now and I'm not worried about it being beer (got good conversion, plenty of sugar) but I didn't have my hydrometer so it's a bit of a mystery beer. Projected OG should have been about 1.060 at 75% efficiency, which is about what I get using single batch sparge BIAB.
Do you guys know of any commercial pales like this mashed very high? I'm interested to see what this beer is going to be like when it's done. Have you ever done one like this before intentionally or by accident? I'd love to hear how you guys think this thing will turn out.