bwitt
Well-Known Member
After studying the volumes of info on ag provided by the members of this great board and accumulating the ingredients and equipment over the past few months. I jumped into AG this weekend with both feet.
My first attempt at a light lager.
Ingredients
6.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain
2.00 lb Rice, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain
1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM)
I hit my mash temp at 150 with 12qts 165F water.
Mash temp was 148F at 30 min.
Drained Cooler after 60 Min.
Added 4 gal 170F water for batch sparge.
Preboil Volume was 6.5 gals
Preboil OG was 1.038 target was 1.041
Added .5 oz Cascade at 50 Mins.
Added .25 oz Cascade at 15 Mins.
Chilled to 65F with wort chiller and Transfered to carboy.
Added 1 Pkgs rehydrated SafLager West European Lager (DCL Yeast #S-23)
Placed in Fermentation fridge and set temp controller to 60F Saturday Night.
Sunday morning dropped temp controller to 55F.
This morning dropped Temp to 50F.
This afternoon I have airlock activity at 1 bubble per second and a nice Krausen layer forming.
My only problem was when transfering the wort to the carboy I got distracted toward the end and as the wort level dropped the trub cone collapsed and I sucked up about 1/4 inch layer of trub.
For the next batch I will split the sparge int 2 2 gal sparges with 180F water to get the efficiency up.
My first attempt at a light lager.
Ingredients
6.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain
2.00 lb Rice, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain
1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM)
I hit my mash temp at 150 with 12qts 165F water.
Mash temp was 148F at 30 min.
Drained Cooler after 60 Min.
Added 4 gal 170F water for batch sparge.
Preboil Volume was 6.5 gals
Preboil OG was 1.038 target was 1.041
Added .5 oz Cascade at 50 Mins.
Added .25 oz Cascade at 15 Mins.
Chilled to 65F with wort chiller and Transfered to carboy.
Added 1 Pkgs rehydrated SafLager West European Lager (DCL Yeast #S-23)
Placed in Fermentation fridge and set temp controller to 60F Saturday Night.
Sunday morning dropped temp controller to 55F.
This morning dropped Temp to 50F.
This afternoon I have airlock activity at 1 bubble per second and a nice Krausen layer forming.
My only problem was when transfering the wort to the carboy I got distracted toward the end and as the wort level dropped the trub cone collapsed and I sucked up about 1/4 inch layer of trub.
For the next batch I will split the sparge int 2 2 gal sparges with 180F water to get the efficiency up.