mitch171
Well-Known Member
Ok I learned and ran into a few things on this my first 10 gallon batch.
I used a bigger cooler but had to make my manifold smaller.
24 lbs in too small of a cooler will get stuck.
I also had bought pre crushed grain that was crushed a little finer than I am use to using.
So I ended up having to scoop strain syphon after letting settle, to get the wort off of the mash.
Ok so I ran out of time and had to do the boil the next morning. Everything went well, I upped my hop amount for the fun of it. One thing I really like about doing a 10 gal batch in a keggle vrs. a 5gal batch in a 7 gal kettle, is less of a worry about boiling over. This was my first batch that did not boil over.
So everything is great I remembered my IC and the finings. Then came time to drain off the wort. I was excited because this seemed like an easy thing to do compared to what I had to do before. Nope got stuck a bunch. The hops I was using were from a friend and apparently a male is nearby and they had seeds. So it took forever to drain it off.
I thought through the funny mash happenings and having to add more water after the mash I thought I was going to come in under my anticipated OG. But it came out above and I am looking at a 6.5 abv IPA at 72 IBUs all Nugget hops. I was aiming for around 6.3 abv so not a huge change.
But anyway I thought I would share proof that RDWHAHB and "It wants to be beer" are true statements.
At least so far...
I used a bigger cooler but had to make my manifold smaller.
24 lbs in too small of a cooler will get stuck.
I also had bought pre crushed grain that was crushed a little finer than I am use to using.
So I ended up having to scoop strain syphon after letting settle, to get the wort off of the mash.
Ok so I ran out of time and had to do the boil the next morning. Everything went well, I upped my hop amount for the fun of it. One thing I really like about doing a 10 gal batch in a keggle vrs. a 5gal batch in a 7 gal kettle, is less of a worry about boiling over. This was my first batch that did not boil over.
So everything is great I remembered my IC and the finings. Then came time to drain off the wort. I was excited because this seemed like an easy thing to do compared to what I had to do before. Nope got stuck a bunch. The hops I was using were from a friend and apparently a male is nearby and they had seeds. So it took forever to drain it off.
I thought through the funny mash happenings and having to add more water after the mash I thought I was going to come in under my anticipated OG. But it came out above and I am looking at a 6.5 abv IPA at 72 IBUs all Nugget hops. I was aiming for around 6.3 abv so not a huge change.
But anyway I thought I would share proof that RDWHAHB and "It wants to be beer" are true statements.
At least so far...
