Baron von BeeGee
Beer Bully
Doesn't everybody with small children get up around 5 anyways?Kaiser said:I brewed mine on Saturday. I even got up at 5 to make sure that the brew-day doesn't interfer to much with the other family activities.
I also doughed in with cold water, but not the night before as I had planned since we have May/June temperatures right now. I doughed in for 2hrs while I changed diapers and exchanged propane cylinders. I don't know what the end result of it all was, although my mash was extremely well hydrated and separated really nicely when I infused to my acid rest.
You can see from my grist above that I "chickened out" and included 20% Pilsner malt to ensure good enzymatic activity. It seemed to work well as my saccharification rest was only 15m before I got a mahogany/reddish iodine reaction. I also used a combination of 6L/10L Munich malts.
Since I ultimately collected on 5g of wort I'm not doing a satellite ferment...I'll just have to see where I get. I actually could have watered it down some since I had higher than expected efficiency, but there were some political pressures from within the homestead to wrap up the brewday after 6hrs.