johnybravo
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Hi every one, I'm a newbie to proper beer brewing and have just done my first all grain which, as I'm sure you will all remember from from you first, I am very proud of.
I originally made the extract version of Orfy's hobgoblin II which was amazing and showed the potential I have in making home brew. I live near Witney and actually prefer my beer to the draught hobgoblin in the local pubs, well done Orfy!
This prompted me to make my first all grain attempt using Orfy's all grain recipe. Now, I have a few questions from my first brew which I would appreciate some help with.
To measure my sparge water I worked out the area of my boiler and therefore how deep i needed to fill it to have the correct volumes. I then marked this depth on my spoon and ensured that the water I had in the boiler matched this before mashing or sparging. Is there an easier way and how do you do it?
I didn't quite get my target og after cooling but I think this may have been for a couple of reasons:
A I had about 2 litres too much wort in my boiler due to inaccurate measuring with the spoon method of the sparge water.
B I boiled the wort on a stove top so the boil was less vigorous than with a large boiler.
C The final volume of wort after cooing was about 26 litres instead of 23.
Would I have had more evaporation on a large burner and a more vigorous boil and therefore hit my target volume and then target og?
Should I adjust the sparge volume to give me a smaller boil volume due to boiling on the stove?
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
Thank,
John
I originally made the extract version of Orfy's hobgoblin II which was amazing and showed the potential I have in making home brew. I live near Witney and actually prefer my beer to the draught hobgoblin in the local pubs, well done Orfy!
This prompted me to make my first all grain attempt using Orfy's all grain recipe. Now, I have a few questions from my first brew which I would appreciate some help with.
To measure my sparge water I worked out the area of my boiler and therefore how deep i needed to fill it to have the correct volumes. I then marked this depth on my spoon and ensured that the water I had in the boiler matched this before mashing or sparging. Is there an easier way and how do you do it?
I didn't quite get my target og after cooling but I think this may have been for a couple of reasons:
A I had about 2 litres too much wort in my boiler due to inaccurate measuring with the spoon method of the sparge water.
B I boiled the wort on a stove top so the boil was less vigorous than with a large boiler.
C The final volume of wort after cooing was about 26 litres instead of 23.
Would I have had more evaporation on a large burner and a more vigorous boil and therefore hit my target volume and then target og?
Should I adjust the sparge volume to give me a smaller boil volume due to boiling on the stove?
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
Thank,
John