henrychinaski
Well-Known Member
actually it reached 101 in the brewery/sunroom today while i was finally getting around to doing this wit that i've been putting off for the last week. it was actually tolerable with pool breaks here and there and plenty of saison on tap. it was certainly no problem maintaining the mash at 150 deg. for 90 minutes, which resulted in a decent 80% extraction.
i did have to boil down to 8 gallons and supplement with 2 gallons of ice cold purified water to get the temperature down low enough to pitch though.
all in all it was a good day, and as long as the yeast gets going in the next few hours, it looks like this will be a good one.
cheers to all of you sweating summer brewers!
i did have to boil down to 8 gallons and supplement with 2 gallons of ice cold purified water to get the temperature down low enough to pitch though.
all in all it was a good day, and as long as the yeast gets going in the next few hours, it looks like this will be a good one.
cheers to all of you sweating summer brewers!