My last two AG batches have had a slight alcohol taste.
First batch was a Kalamazoo brown kit from AustinHS. second was an IPA with Amarillo and Perle. This was the third time for this recipe and the other two were AWESOME. With this batch I forgot the Perle in the box and on brew day they were slightly brown. In hindsight I should have just used more Amarillo and made a SMaSH but...
These were also the first time I used my new HERMS system in the HLT. I have a 10gal round cooler as MLT.
I mashed in around 148 for 30 min. Then vorlauf a few pints but wasn't sure if this was enough. How clear should the runnings be? I have a jaybird false bottom and stand.
When I started recirculating through HERMS coil I raised temp in HLT to 155 for the rest of the hour.
Drained first runnings to BK raised temp to 165 for 20 min
Collected 7.5 gal
This was my first time using my bottom drain Keggle with a jaybird hinged false bottom with level 3 stand also. It got most of the hops.
I also tried to cool using my HERMS coil by putting cold water in the HLT and recirculating.
US-05 yeast
This was also my first two times to use my fermentation chamber that uses one of those small 2 CF fridges and a Johnson digital controller. Probe was taped to fermenting bucket and was reading 68 (which is the temp I usually use for US-05)
When cooling, is it bad to recirculate back into the hot BK? Should it go straight into a fermenter? In other words is it bad for partially cooled wort to mix back in with 200 deg wort? What creates a better hot break? With a bottom drain I'm sure a lot of that material is transferred to the fermenter, so is that ok?
So the first were:
HEMS coil to recirculate
Old hops (for one batch)
BK with Bottom Drain
Cooling with HERMS
Fermentation chamber
Edit;
New base malt
My own mm2 mill
Two tap tower
I want to brew again on Wednesday but can't figure out what or all I need to fix.
Oh yeah. I forgot for my IPA I used my MM2 for the first time and a new base malt (Muntons pale malt Pearl blend)
My gap was set at .054 I have since changed this to .034 (about credit card thickness) for my next brew. And I installed my new Two Tap tower, so now I have two poor beers on tap.
First batch was a Kalamazoo brown kit from AustinHS. second was an IPA with Amarillo and Perle. This was the third time for this recipe and the other two were AWESOME. With this batch I forgot the Perle in the box and on brew day they were slightly brown. In hindsight I should have just used more Amarillo and made a SMaSH but...
These were also the first time I used my new HERMS system in the HLT. I have a 10gal round cooler as MLT.
I mashed in around 148 for 30 min. Then vorlauf a few pints but wasn't sure if this was enough. How clear should the runnings be? I have a jaybird false bottom and stand.
When I started recirculating through HERMS coil I raised temp in HLT to 155 for the rest of the hour.
Drained first runnings to BK raised temp to 165 for 20 min
Collected 7.5 gal
This was my first time using my bottom drain Keggle with a jaybird hinged false bottom with level 3 stand also. It got most of the hops.
I also tried to cool using my HERMS coil by putting cold water in the HLT and recirculating.
US-05 yeast
This was also my first two times to use my fermentation chamber that uses one of those small 2 CF fridges and a Johnson digital controller. Probe was taped to fermenting bucket and was reading 68 (which is the temp I usually use for US-05)
When cooling, is it bad to recirculate back into the hot BK? Should it go straight into a fermenter? In other words is it bad for partially cooled wort to mix back in with 200 deg wort? What creates a better hot break? With a bottom drain I'm sure a lot of that material is transferred to the fermenter, so is that ok?
So the first were:
HEMS coil to recirculate
Old hops (for one batch)
BK with Bottom Drain
Cooling with HERMS
Fermentation chamber
Edit;
New base malt
My own mm2 mill
Two tap tower
I want to brew again on Wednesday but can't figure out what or all I need to fix.
Oh yeah. I forgot for my IPA I used my MM2 for the first time and a new base malt (Muntons pale malt Pearl blend)
My gap was set at .054 I have since changed this to .034 (about credit card thickness) for my next brew. And I installed my new Two Tap tower, so now I have two poor beers on tap.