nosmatt
Well-Known Member
well, bought a MLT converted cooler from a popular seller. 5 gal igloo, with round stailness hoop shaped "manifold"... looks very similar all the DIY setups i see here, but most use a straigHt piece of ss tubing, this one as i said is roundish.
anyway, i was trying ed's haus ale. i ordered an extra 2lbs of 2 row assuming the worst.
put into beersmith, O.G. should have been 1.071, i ended up @ 1.063.
made a few mistakes as is customary, added about 4 lbs of 2 row after my first gallon and stirred well, more water, then 3lbs (2 of vienna, 1 of munich) and then more water, and more 2 row. i used green bay rackers strike calulator which had me very close....went inside to clean some tools, wondering why my cooler was about 6" from full.....remembered, crap, there is more 2 row in the bag!!!
ran back outside, and added at least 3 more lbs of 2 row after a bit more water, and then added the last of my 4.0 gallons of strike water, could barely stir at this point... took temp before my first mistake, 149.8, and after i was all done, with correct amount of grain i was at 153.5... i thought, SWEET! dumb luck, or over preperation, i dont care...
anyway, still lost on sparging. i started releasing the mash slowly into the brewpot, and once about a gallon was in the pot, i added about 2 qts at a time of sparge water @ 175 . mixed as well as possible, and defienately areated it a little (woops!) and temp in mlt said 159 then up to a max of 169...
still not sure, am i to add half my sparge (double sparge) and let it run dry, then add the second running?? ( palmer said "leave at least 1" of water above grainbed AT ALL TIMES) anyway, when i hit my 6.5 mark i made on my 7.5 gallon pot, i stopped sparging...i let the first spare run at least 50% or more dry...
wow, this is getting long...
anyway, not altogether bad, still ended up higher OG than ed's recipe...i guess i over anticipated my efficiency.
i ended up using 8 gallons of water total, 6.5 into brewpot. my pale was at exactly 5 gallons when i dumped the brew pot into it ( i did airate 2.5 galls with a measuring cup dumped from about 4' over bucket-same as i do extract)
again, sorry so long...
can ya give me some pointers for the next batch....i was straight strugglin to get sparge water to temp, knowing i needed the brew pot to get teh mash out water...
ohh, last, i did add the hooeter sparge water about 5 mins into letting the first runnings out....i guess thats "mash out" ?
i would be doing only extract for life if it was not for HBT! thanks all
anyway, i was trying ed's haus ale. i ordered an extra 2lbs of 2 row assuming the worst.
put into beersmith, O.G. should have been 1.071, i ended up @ 1.063.
made a few mistakes as is customary, added about 4 lbs of 2 row after my first gallon and stirred well, more water, then 3lbs (2 of vienna, 1 of munich) and then more water, and more 2 row. i used green bay rackers strike calulator which had me very close....went inside to clean some tools, wondering why my cooler was about 6" from full.....remembered, crap, there is more 2 row in the bag!!!
ran back outside, and added at least 3 more lbs of 2 row after a bit more water, and then added the last of my 4.0 gallons of strike water, could barely stir at this point... took temp before my first mistake, 149.8, and after i was all done, with correct amount of grain i was at 153.5... i thought, SWEET! dumb luck, or over preperation, i dont care...
anyway, still lost on sparging. i started releasing the mash slowly into the brewpot, and once about a gallon was in the pot, i added about 2 qts at a time of sparge water @ 175 . mixed as well as possible, and defienately areated it a little (woops!) and temp in mlt said 159 then up to a max of 169...
still not sure, am i to add half my sparge (double sparge) and let it run dry, then add the second running?? ( palmer said "leave at least 1" of water above grainbed AT ALL TIMES) anyway, when i hit my 6.5 mark i made on my 7.5 gallon pot, i stopped sparging...i let the first spare run at least 50% or more dry...
wow, this is getting long...
anyway, not altogether bad, still ended up higher OG than ed's recipe...i guess i over anticipated my efficiency.
i ended up using 8 gallons of water total, 6.5 into brewpot. my pale was at exactly 5 gallons when i dumped the brew pot into it ( i did airate 2.5 galls with a measuring cup dumped from about 4' over bucket-same as i do extract)
again, sorry so long...
can ya give me some pointers for the next batch....i was straight strugglin to get sparge water to temp, knowing i needed the brew pot to get teh mash out water...
ohh, last, i did add the hooeter sparge water about 5 mins into letting the first runnings out....i guess thats "mash out" ?
i would be doing only extract for life if it was not for HBT! thanks all