soooo, I'll have to amend my $8 Home Depot Conversion Thread to say that the Copper Manifold will fill up and clog during the sparge if your using Darker Malts which have been finely ground.
I was gonna do this Sunday, but my stupid ass 8 month old smack pack just sat there like a lump until yesterday, then all the sudden it's about to freakin burst, so I decided to brew tonight.
OMG what a mess. just started the sparge when the trickle stopped completely. So I poured the rinse water out over a double folded coarse Grain Bag and a collander. Some grain still got into the Wort, so while it was warming to a boil I kept whirl pooling it and scooping it with a fine meshed hand strainer I just happen to have (my wife and I BOTH cook thank god). I got 99% of the grain cleaned out and had an uneventful boil, until I noticed the bubbled and burnt Formica next to the stove, SWMBO is gonna kill me.
as I'm waiting for the boil to start I knock over my 400+ piece O-Ring set (EVERYone should have one, especially if you have plastic valves. With the O-Ring added My Mash Tun leaked NOTHING). That was fun
ANYWAY, so I have a Half cocked Idea for a chiller using my Mash Tun cooler.
Siphon put of the Boil Pot through the Ice Filled cooler, then strain in to the primary. In theory it worked great, however all I have is plastic tubing which gives off exactly ZERO heat so the freakin Wort is coming out at 160F.
Now it's 1:00 am and I've got 4.5 gallons of 160F wort, I add 1 gallon cold water (straight from the tap at 1am) and get it down to 110, I've got the Primary sitting in a bucket of ice I manage to get it Down to 100 by 1:30 and it's now 2 am and the temp is, hold on a sec... 86F.
Here's the funny part.
I hit my Temps DEAD NUTS. My Mash was at 154F FREAKIN EXACTLY!!!!! (Strike water heated to 166F), and my during my ****ed up sparge the grain was 159F(Sparge water heated to 170F). I mean on paper this was a ****ing dead nuts kill.
The Wort was Filtered and Airiated completely.
og 1.030 @ 85F (<-- I'm writing this here so i can do my calculation in the AM)
I bet this will be one of my better brews
Thats how it works...
I HOPE
I was gonna do this Sunday, but my stupid ass 8 month old smack pack just sat there like a lump until yesterday, then all the sudden it's about to freakin burst, so I decided to brew tonight.
OMG what a mess. just started the sparge when the trickle stopped completely. So I poured the rinse water out over a double folded coarse Grain Bag and a collander. Some grain still got into the Wort, so while it was warming to a boil I kept whirl pooling it and scooping it with a fine meshed hand strainer I just happen to have (my wife and I BOTH cook thank god). I got 99% of the grain cleaned out and had an uneventful boil, until I noticed the bubbled and burnt Formica next to the stove, SWMBO is gonna kill me.
as I'm waiting for the boil to start I knock over my 400+ piece O-Ring set (EVERYone should have one, especially if you have plastic valves. With the O-Ring added My Mash Tun leaked NOTHING). That was fun
ANYWAY, so I have a Half cocked Idea for a chiller using my Mash Tun cooler.
Siphon put of the Boil Pot through the Ice Filled cooler, then strain in to the primary. In theory it worked great, however all I have is plastic tubing which gives off exactly ZERO heat so the freakin Wort is coming out at 160F.
Now it's 1:00 am and I've got 4.5 gallons of 160F wort, I add 1 gallon cold water (straight from the tap at 1am) and get it down to 110, I've got the Primary sitting in a bucket of ice I manage to get it Down to 100 by 1:30 and it's now 2 am and the temp is, hold on a sec... 86F.
Here's the funny part.
I hit my Temps DEAD NUTS. My Mash was at 154F FREAKIN EXACTLY!!!!! (Strike water heated to 166F), and my during my ****ed up sparge the grain was 159F(Sparge water heated to 170F). I mean on paper this was a ****ing dead nuts kill.
The Wort was Filtered and Airiated completely.
og 1.030 @ 85F (<-- I'm writing this here so i can do my calculation in the AM)
I bet this will be one of my better brews
Thats how it works...
I HOPE