RoaringBrewer
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So, last night I dig out some old ingredients (some extract, hops, grain) and formulate a recipe. Will be my first in over a year. I figure on partial mash to get my feet wet before getting back into my all grain setup. Extract > 1 year old should be fine, check, hops frozen and vac sealed, check, crushed grain 1 year old, maybe not so much.
So, I figured I'd make a pitstop at the LHBS today and get the ~3lb of grain I wanted for my mini-mash. 2lb vienna, 1/2lb crystal 20, few ounces of special roast.
Roll into this LHBS - its actually a new location - and it says help yourself to grain on a large sign. The other shop asked what you wanted, measured it, milled it, gave it to you in a paper bag. This one has the bags available, scale there, and mill waiting for your use. Pretty sweet... if you can measure. In my defense, I was in a rush b/c I was on lunch hour and starving.
So, I grab the pale, throw some vienna in it, measure it out. 2 "pounds" of vienna. Nice, easy, mill it. Throw 1/2lb of crystal 20 in the bucket .5 "pounds" of crystal, mill it. You get the point. For some reason, catching my eye as I got to turn the scale off, it reads "Kg". Wonderful... so I just milled 2 kilograms and 1/2 kilogram of crystal. But wait, it gets better.
What else did I not do? I didn't weigh the bucket before hand (empty) to know how much grain I actually got so I got somewhere < 2kg and somewhere less than 1/2 kg of grain. But wait, it gets better. :cross:
Ok, do some quick math in my head - 1lb = 2.2kg roughly - right? WRONG. 1kg = 2.2lb. So, oh, I didn't get enough. Sure looks like a lot, but hey the scale doesn't lie. Fill the bucket again, weigh about another 2.5kg of grain b/c at this point I thought I was only somewhere around 1 "pound" after my incorrect and whimsical conversion. Same with the crystal. :fro:
So, what it comes down to is I ended up with about 4.5-5kg of grain - aka about 11lb, confirmed by the scale, now appropriately set in pounds. LOL.
So, I am winging this mini-mash with about 2.5lb of grain off the top (where the crystal is laying on vienna) - assuming 1/2lb is crystal and 2lb is vienna, and I have about 8.5lb of vienna with some crystal mixed in leftover. Anyone know a good SMASH recipe using vienna and a single hop? I can lager too?
I guess too much grain - where there is enough for 2 batches, isn't a bad thing?
Man do I feel stupid.
So, I figured I'd make a pitstop at the LHBS today and get the ~3lb of grain I wanted for my mini-mash. 2lb vienna, 1/2lb crystal 20, few ounces of special roast.
Roll into this LHBS - its actually a new location - and it says help yourself to grain on a large sign. The other shop asked what you wanted, measured it, milled it, gave it to you in a paper bag. This one has the bags available, scale there, and mill waiting for your use. Pretty sweet... if you can measure. In my defense, I was in a rush b/c I was on lunch hour and starving.
So, I grab the pale, throw some vienna in it, measure it out. 2 "pounds" of vienna. Nice, easy, mill it. Throw 1/2lb of crystal 20 in the bucket .5 "pounds" of crystal, mill it. You get the point. For some reason, catching my eye as I got to turn the scale off, it reads "Kg". Wonderful... so I just milled 2 kilograms and 1/2 kilogram of crystal. But wait, it gets better.
What else did I not do? I didn't weigh the bucket before hand (empty) to know how much grain I actually got so I got somewhere < 2kg and somewhere less than 1/2 kg of grain. But wait, it gets better. :cross:
Ok, do some quick math in my head - 1lb = 2.2kg roughly - right? WRONG. 1kg = 2.2lb. So, oh, I didn't get enough. Sure looks like a lot, but hey the scale doesn't lie. Fill the bucket again, weigh about another 2.5kg of grain b/c at this point I thought I was only somewhere around 1 "pound" after my incorrect and whimsical conversion. Same with the crystal. :fro:
So, what it comes down to is I ended up with about 4.5-5kg of grain - aka about 11lb, confirmed by the scale, now appropriately set in pounds. LOL.
So, I am winging this mini-mash with about 2.5lb of grain off the top (where the crystal is laying on vienna) - assuming 1/2lb is crystal and 2lb is vienna, and I have about 8.5lb of vienna with some crystal mixed in leftover. Anyone know a good SMASH recipe using vienna and a single hop? I can lager too?
I guess too much grain - where there is enough for 2 batches, isn't a bad thing?
Man do I feel stupid.
