Hello All,
I brewed yesterday and made a few tweaks to things that worked out well, so I thought I would share.
I brewed BMs Centennial Blonde yesterday -
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/centennial-blonde-simple-4-all-grain-5-10-gall-42841/
Only change was I added 4 oz of left over 6 row and had to up the hop schedule to .3 oz to keep the IBU at 22 ish.
I have learned that my process yields about me about 87% efficiency and thus I need to up my hops to keep the recipe IBU. (or lower my grain amount)
The recipe was to be 1.040 and I was shooting for 1.045 and hit 1.047.
That is 87% per tastybrew calculator.
I also found a link on here somewhere that mentioned a neat trick to aerate wort by adding a piece of racking cane with a 1/16" hole in the middle of the boil kettle drain tube.
Hard to see the hole but if you look close you can see it and the line of air it SUCKS in.
I put the cooled wort up on the table, stirred it hard for a minute, let it rest for 20-ish to settle out some, then put on the tubing and open the valve, dump in 3 gallons, stop... dump yeast... then let it rip again until it the kettle stop draining.
I leave about 1/2 gallon of trub in the kettle cause my pick up tube is kind high...
All that foam is from the dumping the wort into the carboy, the wort had NO foam in the kettle.
After a few hours I saw Nottingham starting to work, wort was at 62.
Next morning about 15 hours later, air lock was going, wort was at 60.
Hope this helps someone.
thanks Kevin