barside laundry
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I made my 2nd AG batch today and things started smooth as butter but I came up short again! I followed Charlie Papizan's guidelines:
10 pounds of grain
2.5 gallons 170 F in Mash Tun (10 gallon cooler)
Mixed and let rest for 90 minutes (154F)
Sparged out with 5 gallons of 170F water (actually 182 but when it reaches the grain bed it is 170)
Before the boil, my kettle (15 gallon keg w/electric heating element) had 5.5 gallons in it so I ran 1 gallon of 182F water from HLT through grain to bring kettle upto 6.5 gallons.
Boiled for 60 minutes making 2 hop additions along the way. (pellets just tossed in, no bag)
With about 10 minutes left I noticed I only had 5.25 gallons so I added 1/2 gallon of water and it quickly returned to a boil.
At the end of the boil I put the lid on and ran wort through my homemade wort chiller (as seen in BYO). With close to 3.5-4.0 gallons in my carboy the wort flow stopped. On the inside of my keg (kettle) I have a 3/8 copper tube extending from the ball valve to the bottom-middle of keg. On the end of the copper I put 12 inches of stainless steel mesh and knotted the end. It seems that the hop trub clogs the mesh. Also I am using a counter flow chiller that is made of 3/8 copper instead of 1/2 so my flow rate is not that fast (22 minutes for 5 gallons of water to flow from keg to carboy).
What can do to fix this? Use whole hops so there is less trub? Buy a bazooka? Start boil with 8 gallons? By the time I had run the last gallon through the grain the wort was clear, I got all the color and sugar out of the grain. My OG was 1052 (right on target).
Please help.
Frustrated home brewer slightly missing extract.
10 pounds of grain
2.5 gallons 170 F in Mash Tun (10 gallon cooler)
Mixed and let rest for 90 minutes (154F)
Sparged out with 5 gallons of 170F water (actually 182 but when it reaches the grain bed it is 170)
Before the boil, my kettle (15 gallon keg w/electric heating element) had 5.5 gallons in it so I ran 1 gallon of 182F water from HLT through grain to bring kettle upto 6.5 gallons.
Boiled for 60 minutes making 2 hop additions along the way. (pellets just tossed in, no bag)
With about 10 minutes left I noticed I only had 5.25 gallons so I added 1/2 gallon of water and it quickly returned to a boil.
At the end of the boil I put the lid on and ran wort through my homemade wort chiller (as seen in BYO). With close to 3.5-4.0 gallons in my carboy the wort flow stopped. On the inside of my keg (kettle) I have a 3/8 copper tube extending from the ball valve to the bottom-middle of keg. On the end of the copper I put 12 inches of stainless steel mesh and knotted the end. It seems that the hop trub clogs the mesh. Also I am using a counter flow chiller that is made of 3/8 copper instead of 1/2 so my flow rate is not that fast (22 minutes for 5 gallons of water to flow from keg to carboy).
What can do to fix this? Use whole hops so there is less trub? Buy a bazooka? Start boil with 8 gallons? By the time I had run the last gallon through the grain the wort was clear, I got all the color and sugar out of the grain. My OG was 1052 (right on target).
Please help.
Frustrated home brewer slightly missing extract.