joeybeer
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Yesterday a friend and I brewed our first all grain batch, i'd done some extract in the past and he's done some great extract/grains..
Basic Porter, 5 gal, OG 1.060
.5lb black patent malt
.5lb chocolate malt
.5lb 60L crystal
2lb Munich malt
9lb American 2 row
1oz Kent Golding hops, 60min
1oz Kent Golding hops, 30min (supposed to be 20)
1oz Kent Golding hops, 5 min
Mashed at 152 for one hour, which we nailed in a cooler mash tun.
the online calc I used to find the water volumes showed 4.2 gallons for mash and 5.7 for sparge, we ended up with 3g of wort out of the mash, that we put on to boil while sparging.. the sparge water was a little hot at around 180, and all 5.7 came back out (vourlaufed the first gallon)
Since we had a 8 gallon pot to boil in, all 5.7 of sparge didn't fit, so we left about 2 gallons in the tun.
we boiled about 7.5 gallons of wort, and added hops at the recomended times, but missed the OG with a 1.038 instead of 1.060..
I'm assuming we should have boiled the wort down until we could fit in the other 2 gallons of sparge ?
or were my mash/sparge volumes way off ??
Either way, it's in the fermenter now, and we had fun, and it's bubbling away nicely.
Basic Porter, 5 gal, OG 1.060
.5lb black patent malt
.5lb chocolate malt
.5lb 60L crystal
2lb Munich malt
9lb American 2 row
1oz Kent Golding hops, 60min
1oz Kent Golding hops, 30min (supposed to be 20)
1oz Kent Golding hops, 5 min
Mashed at 152 for one hour, which we nailed in a cooler mash tun.
the online calc I used to find the water volumes showed 4.2 gallons for mash and 5.7 for sparge, we ended up with 3g of wort out of the mash, that we put on to boil while sparging.. the sparge water was a little hot at around 180, and all 5.7 came back out (vourlaufed the first gallon)
Since we had a 8 gallon pot to boil in, all 5.7 of sparge didn't fit, so we left about 2 gallons in the tun.
we boiled about 7.5 gallons of wort, and added hops at the recomended times, but missed the OG with a 1.038 instead of 1.060..
I'm assuming we should have boiled the wort down until we could fit in the other 2 gallons of sparge ?
or were my mash/sparge volumes way off ??
Either way, it's in the fermenter now, and we had fun, and it's bubbling away nicely.