400d
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2009
- Messages
- 583
- Reaction score
- 3
last night, after all day brewing and drinking lol, I finished my first dunkelweizen.
so, I think it was a disaster
first of all, I used BIAB method for first runnigs, which means that I got sweet wort from a grainbag, in a kettle. mashed at 156 F.
after this I transfered this grainbag to a bucket with a valve, and sparge normally. I did two equal sparges with 173 F water and got it through the valve directly into the kettle.
I had airlock activity and big krausen in couple of hours.
I have to say that in spite of instructions from the kit, I didn't do temperature rests. I just mashed all the grains at 156 F. I really hope that this is not going to be a problem????
also, in the fermentor I have really huge sediment on the bottom. previous beer had probably 60% less sediment, and this one is really big....
don't know the reasons, but probably because of different grains and stuff...
my biggest problem was that at the end of the boil, I think I lost too much water, and now I think in the fermentor I don't have 20 liters (cca 5,3 gallons) as I should, but couple of liters less.
don't have a hydrometer and I don't know OG.
this is how it looks now:
so, I think it was a disaster
first of all, I used BIAB method for first runnigs, which means that I got sweet wort from a grainbag, in a kettle. mashed at 156 F.
after this I transfered this grainbag to a bucket with a valve, and sparge normally. I did two equal sparges with 173 F water and got it through the valve directly into the kettle.
I had airlock activity and big krausen in couple of hours.
I have to say that in spite of instructions from the kit, I didn't do temperature rests. I just mashed all the grains at 156 F. I really hope that this is not going to be a problem????
also, in the fermentor I have really huge sediment on the bottom. previous beer had probably 60% less sediment, and this one is really big....
don't know the reasons, but probably because of different grains and stuff...
my biggest problem was that at the end of the boil, I think I lost too much water, and now I think in the fermentor I don't have 20 liters (cca 5,3 gallons) as I should, but couple of liters less.
don't have a hydrometer and I don't know OG.
this is how it looks now: