puter
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Bought a Northern Brewer kit - Bavarian Hefeweizen. OG should be 1.049. Calculated 3.9 gallons of strike and 3.8 gallons of sparge to end with 6.5 gallons pre-boil (1.2 gallons grain absorption).
7 hour brew day yesterday.
After studying the BIAB thread here, figured that I had it all thought out.
First issue - The heat stick I made and tested out fine popped the GFI a couple of times. Toss.
No propane. Go to store and swap out.
Warmed water to target temp of 170 to hit 152 strike temp with the 9.5lbs of grain. Put in grain. Water only went down to 165. Huh? Pour in cold water from sparge to get down to 152 (probably 1/2 gallon). Stirred a LOT. Wrapped pot in comforter.
Started warming sparge. Calculator showed 185 degrees for a 170 sparge. Stirred a LOT. Added it all together. Refractometer shows 1.027.
Thunderstorm came up mid-boil. Had to move everything. Finished boil.
Cooled it to 75. Post-boil is 1.032 when I should have 1.049. Bleh.
Transferred, pitched the yeast, threw it in the fermentation chamber and set it to 66. Pretty sure I'm gonna have carbonated hoppy yeast water.
Now to figure out what I did so wrong.
7 hour brew day yesterday.
After studying the BIAB thread here, figured that I had it all thought out.
First issue - The heat stick I made and tested out fine popped the GFI a couple of times. Toss.
No propane. Go to store and swap out.
Warmed water to target temp of 170 to hit 152 strike temp with the 9.5lbs of grain. Put in grain. Water only went down to 165. Huh? Pour in cold water from sparge to get down to 152 (probably 1/2 gallon). Stirred a LOT. Wrapped pot in comforter.
Started warming sparge. Calculator showed 185 degrees for a 170 sparge. Stirred a LOT. Added it all together. Refractometer shows 1.027.
Thunderstorm came up mid-boil. Had to move everything. Finished boil.
Cooled it to 75. Post-boil is 1.032 when I should have 1.049. Bleh.
Transferred, pitched the yeast, threw it in the fermentation chamber and set it to 66. Pretty sure I'm gonna have carbonated hoppy yeast water.
Now to figure out what I did so wrong.