Progfan2010
Active Member
I´ve been researching and reading and basically just studying about brewing for over a year. I´ve read basically all of Palmer´s How to brew and understand all about efficiency, malt quantities planning for an specific OG, IBUs calculations and so on.
However, I had not brewed beer by myself until one week ago. It was an all grain batch. I don´t care about extract brewing.
I really believe I had a textbook grain crush. I worked very hard on building a good mash tun and had only one quart of mash tun loss.
I had a few issues due to lack of experience like the target temperature achievement and almost forgetting to hydrate the yeast in time and stuff. But if I did anything right, that was the lautering.
I was planning on re circulating as many times as needed. However, The first time I drained a couple of quarts to re circulate, the wort was so clean that it looked ridiculous to do it a second time. The wort was clear, clean of all debris. I drained what seemed to be 20 quarts with absolutely no impurities at all. Vorlaufing was really unnecessary.
I got a 1.052 OG, so I guess lack of grain crushing was not the cause. Has anything like this happened to anyone?. I built a manifold with 5 tubes, I set them facing down, just like Palmer suggests.
However, I had not brewed beer by myself until one week ago. It was an all grain batch. I don´t care about extract brewing.
I really believe I had a textbook grain crush. I worked very hard on building a good mash tun and had only one quart of mash tun loss.
I had a few issues due to lack of experience like the target temperature achievement and almost forgetting to hydrate the yeast in time and stuff. But if I did anything right, that was the lautering.
I was planning on re circulating as many times as needed. However, The first time I drained a couple of quarts to re circulate, the wort was so clean that it looked ridiculous to do it a second time. The wort was clear, clean of all debris. I drained what seemed to be 20 quarts with absolutely no impurities at all. Vorlaufing was really unnecessary.
I got a 1.052 OG, so I guess lack of grain crushing was not the cause. Has anything like this happened to anyone?. I built a manifold with 5 tubes, I set them facing down, just like Palmer suggests.