nianticcardplayer
Homebrewing Since 2009
Good Day everyone;
This last weekend I did my second all grain brew and I ran into some, and I am not sure if they are big, but issues. I was going off the all grain recipe in the December BYO magazine for the SNPA clone.
In the directions it called for 3.5 gallons of water for the mash, with grain bill in the recipe going off the 1.5 quart per pound I came up with about 4.1 gallons for mash. Sparging to get a pre-boil volume of 6.5 gallons...so 3 gallons there...
I started with the 3.5 gallons at 168-170 into the cooler and then added grain checked temp 20 minutes later and stirred around, after initial stirring when adding grain and the temp was holding about 152-154 on the thermometer. I did put another half gallon of water into pot and warmed it to 170 if it needed to be added later in the mash. I checked temp at 45 minutes and it was between 150-152 on the thermometer. I added the 170 water for the last fifteen minutes while waiting for my sparge water to finish heating.
At the one hour mark I stirred final time and began to vourlaugh to get the wort as clear as I could took about 7 pitchers to accomplish and then into the boil pot it went. I then added the three gallons of sparge water and let it sit for 20 minutes, again vourlaugh and then into the brew pot I was above the 6 gallon mark I had for my 8 gallon boil pot so I began the 90 minute boil.
Following the directions I expected to have around five gallons to go into the fermenter. After filtering out the hop sludge and break material using my old partial mash bag I only had four gallons of wort...? I took a gravity reading and my hydrometer was showing 1.068-1.070 range....I was a little confounded at having so much boil off and such a high reading, magazine said should be about 1.051......
I did have one more gallon of cold spring water there so I added that to top off to five gallons and took another reading it was closer to where it should be after adding the water but it was still quite high in comparison. I added the American Ale (1056) wyeast at about 68-70 degrees and within a couple of hours had activity and it's been bubbling away since Saturday.
My questions are did I royally screw something up?
Also how did I end up losing so much through the boil.
I use a propane burner (turkey fryer) my pot is an 8 gallon stainless steel with spigot and thermometer....I also used a false bottom in the pot as well...if any of that makes a difference.
This last weekend I did my second all grain brew and I ran into some, and I am not sure if they are big, but issues. I was going off the all grain recipe in the December BYO magazine for the SNPA clone.
In the directions it called for 3.5 gallons of water for the mash, with grain bill in the recipe going off the 1.5 quart per pound I came up with about 4.1 gallons for mash. Sparging to get a pre-boil volume of 6.5 gallons...so 3 gallons there...
I started with the 3.5 gallons at 168-170 into the cooler and then added grain checked temp 20 minutes later and stirred around, after initial stirring when adding grain and the temp was holding about 152-154 on the thermometer. I did put another half gallon of water into pot and warmed it to 170 if it needed to be added later in the mash. I checked temp at 45 minutes and it was between 150-152 on the thermometer. I added the 170 water for the last fifteen minutes while waiting for my sparge water to finish heating.
At the one hour mark I stirred final time and began to vourlaugh to get the wort as clear as I could took about 7 pitchers to accomplish and then into the boil pot it went. I then added the three gallons of sparge water and let it sit for 20 minutes, again vourlaugh and then into the brew pot I was above the 6 gallon mark I had for my 8 gallon boil pot so I began the 90 minute boil.
Following the directions I expected to have around five gallons to go into the fermenter. After filtering out the hop sludge and break material using my old partial mash bag I only had four gallons of wort...? I took a gravity reading and my hydrometer was showing 1.068-1.070 range....I was a little confounded at having so much boil off and such a high reading, magazine said should be about 1.051......
I did have one more gallon of cold spring water there so I added that to top off to five gallons and took another reading it was closer to where it should be after adding the water but it was still quite high in comparison. I added the American Ale (1056) wyeast at about 68-70 degrees and within a couple of hours had activity and it's been bubbling away since Saturday.
My questions are did I royally screw something up?
Also how did I end up losing so much through the boil.
I use a propane burner (turkey fryer) my pot is an 8 gallon stainless steel with spigot and thermometer....I also used a false bottom in the pot as well...if any of that makes a difference.