Set out to make my first all-grain batch, planning to make a Two-Hearted clone (not knowing about the great centennial shortage). Made a few changes, including swapping out the Centennial for Falconer's Flight. Used my new 10 gallon converted Igloo with false bottom.
5 Gallon batch
Grain bill
10# 2-row
2# Vienna
0.8# Cara-Pils Dextrine
0.8# Carared
60' mash at 151
Hops
FF, 1oz. 90'
FF, 1oz. 30'
FF, 0.5oz. 15'
FF, 0.5oz. 1'
FF, 1oz. dry hopped in secondary
Shooting for 1.070 but only got 1.058. I think my problem was not getting the grain bed warm enough during the batch sparge (single batch) and not stirring well enough. I made a new mash paddle to hopefully remedy this situation for my next batch.
Got down to 1.009 with 1056 (starters rule!). Fermented like crazy.
4 weeks in primary. 1 week in secondary with dry hops. 3 weeks bottle conditioned.
Really happy with the head and lacing. The mouth feel of all-grain is so different to me than extract. I feel like I didn't get enough bitterness out of my 90' hops despite the long boil. I suspect it is because I really couldn't get it up to full boil due to size limitations of my pot (you can see the line of hop residue from the start of the boil). Planning to upgrade to a 9 gallon SS pot soon.
Overall very happy with my first all-grain. Washed the yeast and plan on making an oatmeal stout this Sunday.
5 Gallon batch
Grain bill
10# 2-row
2# Vienna
0.8# Cara-Pils Dextrine
0.8# Carared
60' mash at 151
Hops
FF, 1oz. 90'
FF, 1oz. 30'
FF, 0.5oz. 15'
FF, 0.5oz. 1'
FF, 1oz. dry hopped in secondary
Shooting for 1.070 but only got 1.058. I think my problem was not getting the grain bed warm enough during the batch sparge (single batch) and not stirring well enough. I made a new mash paddle to hopefully remedy this situation for my next batch.
Got down to 1.009 with 1056 (starters rule!). Fermented like crazy.
4 weeks in primary. 1 week in secondary with dry hops. 3 weeks bottle conditioned.
Really happy with the head and lacing. The mouth feel of all-grain is so different to me than extract. I feel like I didn't get enough bitterness out of my 90' hops despite the long boil. I suspect it is because I really couldn't get it up to full boil due to size limitations of my pot (you can see the line of hop residue from the start of the boil). Planning to upgrade to a 9 gallon SS pot soon.
Overall very happy with my first all-grain. Washed the yeast and plan on making an oatmeal stout this Sunday.