jourelemode
Well-Known Member
just wanted to update you guys about my first all grain. Looks like everything is ok. The first 24hrs I was kinda worried because it didn't look like anything was happening, so I checked the gravity and it went from 1.068 to 1.043. When I saw that, and saw that there's no krausen, I opened it up and checked it. There was a krausen, but it already fell back into the beer. And that was in a 24hr period which got me worried cause I thought maybe the only fermentables I had in there were the D2 belgian candy syrup and the corn sugar. I guess my mash temps fell into the right zone then. I was only worried at one point during my mash, I was gone for 10 minutes because I forgot to buy ice to cool the beer after everything was done. So when I got back the temp was way off, it was like 170*F so I just brought it back down to 150-152*F and extended my mash an additional 10 minutes. I left for 4 days and I just got back, I checked the gravity and its at 1.019 now. I'm expecting it to go down to 1.014 in the next 8 days, but if it doesn't i'm ok with it. at least its 6.4abv right now.