Brew Day 11-14

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Well, I'm getting stuff set up for tomorrows brew, BM's Black Pearl Porter. Anyone out there have a good Porter water profile I could use as a starting point? I'm messing around with the additions now, I can get it malty, but my Na gets pretty high also.

Made up my starter last night (London Ale), and she's looking good! I use 2000ml water 200g DME. Boil for 10mins. I usually end up a perfect 040, but last night I ended up at 047. I guess I boiled it too hard. (I also ended up with only 1800ml) No worries! It will be fine.

I hope to fire up the keggle early. I'll post updates and maybe a few pics then.

TTFN

 

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Ok finally got my water adjustments figured out. The keggle is fired up, everything set up and just waiting for water to hit 180 for mash in. 3-doors down playing in the background

 

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so far so good. mashed in with 180 water and ended up at 158.5
just checked the ph after i added the salts and got a 5.6ish

the dead is playing :rockin:

 

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mash out complete, started the sparge. Heres to hoping no stuck sparges due to the flaked oats!

linkin park jamming

 

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well sparge didn't go as well as I had hoped. I was shooting for 168-170. It ended up more like 162-163 for the last 30 mins. I guess I didn't take into account it being cooler out side than during the summer. Usually I can hold my temps for an hour in the cooler no problem at all.

 

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well snap! my OG est was 070 and I came in at a 051 I guess the low sparge temps hurt me. Maybe I should have went with more like a 1.25 qts/lb grain instead of 1.40 I would have ended up using more than 3.5 gals of sparge. I dunno. I'm sure it will still be tasty.