Well I got my first stuck sparge. I guess the false bottom bucket collapsed to the bottom of the mash tun. I used the auto siphon (yea!!!) to drain the grain and
continue (taking 1 hr longer.)
I got the mash temp setup, but obviously the sparge took too long and the water
cooled off (didn't get much higher than mash temp (158)
In the end, I got an original gravity of 1.050 vs 1.056 expected.
What I am wondering is what the hops will be like. I'm brewing Orfy's Hobgoblin2.
It has Styrian and Fuggles as first wort hops. What is the 105min sparge going to
do to those bittering hops ?
Thanks.
continue (taking 1 hr longer.)
I got the mash temp setup, but obviously the sparge took too long and the water
cooled off (didn't get much higher than mash temp (158)
In the end, I got an original gravity of 1.050 vs 1.056 expected.
What I am wondering is what the hops will be like. I'm brewing Orfy's Hobgoblin2.
It has Styrian and Fuggles as first wort hops. What is the 105min sparge going to
do to those bittering hops ?
Thanks.