dstranger99
Well-Known Member
Well, It's the day after and I'm thinking over the mistakes I made on this, and am gonna just hope for the best.
Things started off well enough, got my strike water to 170, added my grains a little at a time to avoid clumping, then poured them into my mesh bag attached to a bottling bucket.
Moron Mistake #1. Mesh bag elastic came loose, grains everywhere, cleaned that out of bucket, re-hung mesh bag with twine. Am losing heat now, but got everything stable within 8 minutes, put top on bucket, bucket in sink, added hot water around bucket to get more heat.
What I should have done: Put the kettle with grains in the oven to sit for the 45 minute mash....(Why didn't I think of this yesterday!!!)...
Part 2 : The Sparge
Got 2 gal sparge water to 155, opened spigot, re-circulated 3 cups over mash, proceeded to slowly pour sparge water over grains, wort going thru tubing into another bucket quite good, heated extra 1/2 gallon of sparge at this point cause I know I will lose some in the boil.
Rest of the day seemed ok, got the boil going, added some of the malt, and all the rest at flameout (hoping to avoid extract twang on this one), added the hops for 60 min, irish moss on last 15, and bittering hops at final 2 minutes.
Cooled the wort down to 70 in 20 minutes, added 1 gallon of cold water to 5 gal mark, pitched yeast. Done. (Safal US 05) Dry.
..........It's the mash I'm worried about, 40 minutes it sat there in the bucket, warm, yes, but doubt it sat there (even in the warm water) in the 150's.
Comments ?.......Thanks for reading.
Things started off well enough, got my strike water to 170, added my grains a little at a time to avoid clumping, then poured them into my mesh bag attached to a bottling bucket.
Moron Mistake #1. Mesh bag elastic came loose, grains everywhere, cleaned that out of bucket, re-hung mesh bag with twine. Am losing heat now, but got everything stable within 8 minutes, put top on bucket, bucket in sink, added hot water around bucket to get more heat.
What I should have done: Put the kettle with grains in the oven to sit for the 45 minute mash....(Why didn't I think of this yesterday!!!)...
Part 2 : The Sparge
Got 2 gal sparge water to 155, opened spigot, re-circulated 3 cups over mash, proceeded to slowly pour sparge water over grains, wort going thru tubing into another bucket quite good, heated extra 1/2 gallon of sparge at this point cause I know I will lose some in the boil.
Rest of the day seemed ok, got the boil going, added some of the malt, and all the rest at flameout (hoping to avoid extract twang on this one), added the hops for 60 min, irish moss on last 15, and bittering hops at final 2 minutes.
Cooled the wort down to 70 in 20 minutes, added 1 gallon of cold water to 5 gal mark, pitched yeast. Done. (Safal US 05) Dry.
..........It's the mash I'm worried about, 40 minutes it sat there in the bucket, warm, yes, but doubt it sat there (even in the warm water) in the 150's.
Comments ?.......Thanks for reading.