First All Grain Batch Complete!

[rbridges01]

Hi All -

Just wanted to let you know that I did my first AG yesterday. It took me 5 1/2 hours from start through clean up. I hate to jinx myself, but everything went perfect. I hit all my tempatures, and had the correct preboil volume, and got 77% efficiency. Considering it was a big batch ( 8 gallons with 10.26 gal pre-boil), I couldn't be happier. Thanks to all of you for inspiring me to make the leap to AG. Here's my first AG - I call it RIPA (Ron's Rye IPA)

Amount Item
7.9 oz Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM)
14 lbs 7.6 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
2 lbs 2.6 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM)
2 lbs 2.3 oz Rye, Flaked (2.0 SRM)
1 lbs 7.0 oz Victory Malt (25.0 SRM)
1.45 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (Dry Hop 5 days)
1.30 oz Chinook [14.30 %] (60 min)
1.64 oz Cascade [6.80 %] (45 min)
1.30 oz Cascade [6.80 %] (30 min)
0.95 oz Cascade [6.80 %] (15 min)
0.55 oz Cascade [6.80 %] (5 min)
2 Pkgs Safale us-05 (DCL Yeast) [Starter 50 ml]

Mash at 154F for 60 minutes
Batch Sparge

SG - 1.061

 

[fifelee]

Very ambitious first brew. Congrats.