mike11b82
Well-Known Member
ok im going to try and make this short. i brewed my first all grain batch on sunday. it was a two hearted ale clone, 13lb of grain. i used sparge pal on my iphone to calculate how much water to use. 4.1 gal mash and 4.8 gal spage. i heated my water to 167 and mixed in my grain very good, stirring alot and checked the temp and thought it was 155. i covered and lt sit for 30 min, and checked temp again, it read 158. so i belive my first temp reading was wrong.i stired some more and got the temp to about 156 and let it sit for the remainder of the hour. i heated my sparege water to 180 and drained the bag and place it in and stirred it, probly not was good as i should of. let sit for 10 min and drained and combined. i started the boil with 6.8 gallons, 1.048 @ 80*. i added the hops per the recipe, 1oz centennial @60, 1 @15, 1 @ 5. at about 3min left a ran out of propane and did not do the last 1 min hop addition. cooled and added yeast starter as normal. og was 1.052@80*
so my question is should i dry hop .5 oz like the recipe calls for or not at all and what can i do to improve my efficenty?
Thanks for the help, i have been reading the forum for over 6 months and you all have answered alot of questions for me. thanks
so my question is should i dry hop .5 oz like the recipe calls for or not at all and what can i do to improve my efficenty?
Thanks for the help, i have been reading the forum for over 6 months and you all have answered alot of questions for me. thanks