sleepspeaking
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Last night I started my first Brew day at 7pm with a buddy.
Robust Beard Porter extract kit from HomeBrew Supply.
With my 2.5g in my brew kettle on the glass stove top by 7:50pm i had the proper temp (155°) to start steeping my grains in a grain bag:
After the 20min steep at 8:15pm I was ready to sparge and shoot for boil. (Sparged with water at 175°)
at 9:20pm we got the rolling boil needed to add the dry extract.
went back to heat and 25min later at 9:55 we were back to a rolling boil
then held that boil for an hour, hoppings were 60min, 15min, and 0min. pic of the first hopping
After in ice bath that took about 30-45min at 11:24pm (no pics) we were at 80° in the carboy (instructions said to transfer to carboy at 90°)
then it took 2hrs and 20min to get to the temp needed to pitch the yeast. And i have the carboy in my fermenting chamber (Chest Freezer with temp controller holding @ 34°)
trying to hold the chamber at 70° until fermentation starts and then down to 66-68°.
Notes and Concerns during: (looking for advice here)
Held steep temp well 155-162° by moving on and off of burner, tea-bag motion with the grain bag and stirring for most of it.
Sparged by putting grain bag in a colander and pouring 2.5 gallons of water at 175° water over it in small portions (too hot? no colander? pour all at once?)
took a while any time we tried to gain temp (normal? move to propane burner?)
only one boil over event because it was taking a while after the dry extract so we partially covered it and sat down... rookie move...
took FOREVER to drop temp from 80° to 75° even in a freezer(didn't use the temp controller for a bit, Should i have brought it down further in the ice bath? or would i have chanced getting it below 70° and ruined my pitch?)
So From 7pm-1:45am almost 8hours for a 5 gallon batch seems rough.
Robust Beard Porter extract kit from HomeBrew Supply.
With my 2.5g in my brew kettle on the glass stove top by 7:50pm i had the proper temp (155°) to start steeping my grains in a grain bag:
After the 20min steep at 8:15pm I was ready to sparge and shoot for boil. (Sparged with water at 175°)
at 9:20pm we got the rolling boil needed to add the dry extract.
went back to heat and 25min later at 9:55 we were back to a rolling boil
then held that boil for an hour, hoppings were 60min, 15min, and 0min. pic of the first hopping
After in ice bath that took about 30-45min at 11:24pm (no pics) we were at 80° in the carboy (instructions said to transfer to carboy at 90°)
then it took 2hrs and 20min to get to the temp needed to pitch the yeast. And i have the carboy in my fermenting chamber (Chest Freezer with temp controller holding @ 34°)
trying to hold the chamber at 70° until fermentation starts and then down to 66-68°.
Notes and Concerns during: (looking for advice here)
Held steep temp well 155-162° by moving on and off of burner, tea-bag motion with the grain bag and stirring for most of it.
Sparged by putting grain bag in a colander and pouring 2.5 gallons of water at 175° water over it in small portions (too hot? no colander? pour all at once?)
took a while any time we tried to gain temp (normal? move to propane burner?)
only one boil over event because it was taking a while after the dry extract so we partially covered it and sat down... rookie move...
took FOREVER to drop temp from 80° to 75° even in a freezer(didn't use the temp controller for a bit, Should i have brought it down further in the ice bath? or would i have chanced getting it below 70° and ruined my pitch?)
So From 7pm-1:45am almost 8hours for a 5 gallon batch seems rough.
