I have completed my first all grain brew which I decided to brew https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f67/bee-cave-brewery-robust-porter-56768/
Which looked like a great recipe by EdWort. I think I did some things ok but wasn't quite sure on others. First of all I couldn't get my hands on 2 of the grains, so I used a little oatmeal instead of the flaked barley.
I hit my mash temperature right on and help the same temp for the whole 60 minutes. I was kinda scared when I started to hear the crackling of the cooler when I put in the strike water.
I don't have any volume markers on my cook pots so I did some measuring before and made little pen marks on the outside to use.
I then sparged with 2.5G for the first batch and 2.0G for the second and came out perfectly to the 7.5G to boil.
I did a preboil gravity check and not sure if it was correct. It was only 1.041.
The next part is where I am glad I went out and bought a new stock pot to boil with because I would not have been able to do the boil with a turkey fryer with all the foam that came up at the beginning of the boil. next time I need to watch more carefully. Other than that the boil when great, I love dropping those hops in and the smell.
I then dropped the wort temp down to about 78 in about 10 minutes, not as quickly as I was able to get the mini-mash batches down, but only worked with about 2.5G of wort in those batches.
I prepped the yeast and moved the carboy to the back room, there was still a lot of foam in the carboy from dumping it in, but the yeast was ready and I pitched it and sealed it up.
The temp was still high, 74 I think so I put on a wet t-shirt and that seemed to get it down to 72 at least, time went on and I decided to add water to plastic container I had it in and ICE. That got it down to 70. We are having some warm weather here and topped out at 88 outside, the room was at 65, but the beer was keeping itself warm.
The bubbles started about 4 hours in and are still going crazy now, almost 2 days later and about 3 bubbles a second.
This beer should turn out great, thanks for everyones help!!!
I had a OG reading of 1.078 too and hit 85% brewhouse efficiency too. Can't wait to taste it.
Also, I was a little too focused more almost all of the 5 hours this took, I forgot to take any pictures, sorry, next time, or when I keg this
Which looked like a great recipe by EdWort. I think I did some things ok but wasn't quite sure on others. First of all I couldn't get my hands on 2 of the grains, so I used a little oatmeal instead of the flaked barley.
I hit my mash temperature right on and help the same temp for the whole 60 minutes. I was kinda scared when I started to hear the crackling of the cooler when I put in the strike water.
I don't have any volume markers on my cook pots so I did some measuring before and made little pen marks on the outside to use.
I then sparged with 2.5G for the first batch and 2.0G for the second and came out perfectly to the 7.5G to boil.
I did a preboil gravity check and not sure if it was correct. It was only 1.041.
The next part is where I am glad I went out and bought a new stock pot to boil with because I would not have been able to do the boil with a turkey fryer with all the foam that came up at the beginning of the boil. next time I need to watch more carefully. Other than that the boil when great, I love dropping those hops in and the smell.
I then dropped the wort temp down to about 78 in about 10 minutes, not as quickly as I was able to get the mini-mash batches down, but only worked with about 2.5G of wort in those batches.
I prepped the yeast and moved the carboy to the back room, there was still a lot of foam in the carboy from dumping it in, but the yeast was ready and I pitched it and sealed it up.
The temp was still high, 74 I think so I put on a wet t-shirt and that seemed to get it down to 72 at least, time went on and I decided to add water to plastic container I had it in and ICE. That got it down to 70. We are having some warm weather here and topped out at 88 outside, the room was at 65, but the beer was keeping itself warm.
The bubbles started about 4 hours in and are still going crazy now, almost 2 days later and about 3 bubbles a second.
This beer should turn out great, thanks for everyones help!!!
I had a OG reading of 1.078 too and hit 85% brewhouse efficiency too. Can't wait to taste it.
Also, I was a little too focused more almost all of the 5 hours this took, I forgot to take any pictures, sorry, next time, or when I keg this