Grimster
Well-Known Member
Oh tested my water today, my Ph is lowish in the 6.0-6.5 range out of my drinking filter, and my hardness (both measurements) are pretty damned hard. This is an imperial stout, is it going to like the hardness and Ph or should I consider running to Lowe's for 5 gallons of bottled water to use?
Please see if I have the basic steps down.
Equipment: 10G pot, 4G pot, gas stove, chiller.
Doing a 5 gallon imperial stout AG recipe from NB, this one actually
So here's the basic plan feel free to critique:
Bring 5 gallons of water in my 10G pot up to 165F turn off heat.
Put my grain in a 5 gallon paint strainer mesh bag, put it in the pot it should fall to right around the 150 to 155 mark, if too low heat it back up to 153.
Stir it about every 12-15 minutes for at least an hour but an hour and a half won't hurt even 2 hours from what I've seen?
Bring 2 more gallons in my 4 gallon pot up to around 185F.
After the mashing, "sparge" doing what I gather is a "batch" sparge by dunking my grain bag into the smaller pot and more or less rinsing the grain with the fresh water to get out the last of the "goodness". Do this for about 10-15 minutes.
Mix the sparge water and the mash water together in the big pot (now called wort) and bring to a boil.
Here's where I'm a bit unsure.
There's only one packet of hops, I'm not quite sure when to put it in? 1oz Galena? Boil this hops for the whole 60 minutes?
Finish boil.
Turn off heat and top it off to right at 5 gallons assuming it needs it.
Drop my chiller in, and cool the wort to about 72-75F and put it into my fermenting bucket.
Pitch yeast, stir vigorously to aerate it up good, cap, airlock, put in my 63F basement and let it do it's thing.
Sound about right? Anything major out of wack with this process?
Please see if I have the basic steps down.
Equipment: 10G pot, 4G pot, gas stove, chiller.
Doing a 5 gallon imperial stout AG recipe from NB, this one actually
So here's the basic plan feel free to critique:
Bring 5 gallons of water in my 10G pot up to 165F turn off heat.
Put my grain in a 5 gallon paint strainer mesh bag, put it in the pot it should fall to right around the 150 to 155 mark, if too low heat it back up to 153.
Stir it about every 12-15 minutes for at least an hour but an hour and a half won't hurt even 2 hours from what I've seen?
Bring 2 more gallons in my 4 gallon pot up to around 185F.
After the mashing, "sparge" doing what I gather is a "batch" sparge by dunking my grain bag into the smaller pot and more or less rinsing the grain with the fresh water to get out the last of the "goodness". Do this for about 10-15 minutes.
Mix the sparge water and the mash water together in the big pot (now called wort) and bring to a boil.
Here's where I'm a bit unsure.
There's only one packet of hops, I'm not quite sure when to put it in? 1oz Galena? Boil this hops for the whole 60 minutes?
Finish boil.
Turn off heat and top it off to right at 5 gallons assuming it needs it.
Drop my chiller in, and cool the wort to about 72-75F and put it into my fermenting bucket.
Pitch yeast, stir vigorously to aerate it up good, cap, airlock, put in my 63F basement and let it do it's thing.
Sound about right? Anything major out of wack with this process?