Skipster
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Last nights brew session sucked , I attempted to do BM's newcastle clone. This is only my second AG brew so I am still working out the kinks with my new equipment. The mash went well, I improved on my efficiency, above 70%. :rockin:
So up to now things are looking great, I have collected my 6.5 gallons in the brew pot. Problem is with the weather we are having here in the good ol' northwest, (its actually snowing) I was unable to get my wort to a boil after 2 hours of trying. My hand me down burner isnt cutting it. I even tried splitting the boil in half. Half on the stove, half on the burner outside. But the burner outside can't get even that little amount above 180 degrees.
I cooled what was left of the outside half and added that to the fermenter, I did a partial boil with 3 gallons of wort on the stove top. I just treated it like the extract brews I used to do. I am not sure what kind of an effect this is going to have on the finished product. I can tell you one thing, after work I am going to get a burner that "effing" works.
All in all it doesn't look so bad, it was bubbling away this morning. I have abondoned the idea it will be a clone beer, at this point I will settle for a drinkable beer after that fiasco.
So up to now things are looking great, I have collected my 6.5 gallons in the brew pot. Problem is with the weather we are having here in the good ol' northwest, (its actually snowing) I was unable to get my wort to a boil after 2 hours of trying. My hand me down burner isnt cutting it. I even tried splitting the boil in half. Half on the stove, half on the burner outside. But the burner outside can't get even that little amount above 180 degrees.
I cooled what was left of the outside half and added that to the fermenter, I did a partial boil with 3 gallons of wort on the stove top. I just treated it like the extract brews I used to do. I am not sure what kind of an effect this is going to have on the finished product. I can tell you one thing, after work I am going to get a burner that "effing" works.
All in all it doesn't look so bad, it was bubbling away this morning. I have abondoned the idea it will be a clone beer, at this point I will settle for a drinkable beer after that fiasco.