No, that's not a misspelling, I did mean botched because that sums up how the day went. For my first attempt at brewing all grain I decided to try an all-grain batch of my red ale. At the time when I picked up my ingredients I bought ingredients for my second batch of a different recipe as well. I measured out the 2-row and munich malts as they were the common malts. I then tossed in the 60/120 caramel mix and the chocolate malt. "Hmm, that seemed like an awful lot of chocolate malt. Doh!"
I was supposed to only put in 1/8# but dumped in 1/2#. No biggie, I ran back to ProMash to find out that I had the color for an American Brown so I toned down the hops a bit so my first all grain batch will be my Mystery Brown Ale.
The second mistake was with the strike water. I heated up the strike water to 160 deg and added that to the grain but I ended up with only about 140 deg or so in the mash tun. I still had some room in the cooler so I added some hotter water to bring it up to 148. Is there a way to calculate in ProMash what this should be or is it an experience thing?
My final mistake was that I forgot to recirculate the first runnings until things ran clear. I didn't see any husks in the wort so I'm not sure how much this will hurt. What negative side-effects can I expect from this?
I was supposed to only put in 1/8# but dumped in 1/2#. No biggie, I ran back to ProMash to find out that I had the color for an American Brown so I toned down the hops a bit so my first all grain batch will be my Mystery Brown Ale.
The second mistake was with the strike water. I heated up the strike water to 160 deg and added that to the grain but I ended up with only about 140 deg or so in the mash tun. I still had some room in the cooler so I added some hotter water to bring it up to 148. Is there a way to calculate in ProMash what this should be or is it an experience thing?
My final mistake was that I forgot to recirculate the first runnings until things ran clear. I didn't see any husks in the wort so I'm not sure how much this will hurt. What negative side-effects can I expect from this?