Been brewing with extract and specialty grains for awhile now. Brewed my first all-grain batch today. Followed this recipe (mostly) for a schwarzbier:
A ProMash Recipe - The Jamil Show - Schwarzbier
Tweaked the hop schedule a little. LBS didn't have Hallertauer pellets so I used Mt Hood whole leaf and adjusted for alpha %. BeerSmith said the final IBUs matched up. Mashed for about an hour at 155* at a 1.2 ratio and then fly sparged with about 18 quarts at 170*. (Forgot to Vorlauf.)
Pre-boil gravity was 1.057 (Recipe target is 1.054.)
So we'll see if I completely ruined the beer or not. After the boil, I chilled it, racked it to the 6.5 gallon primary and took the gravity. Ended up with about 4.5 gallons of wort at 1.077. Way too high. Looked at BeerSmith for options. Ended up diluting the wort with 2 gallons of water and bringing the OG down to 1.053, about where I wanted it. Problem is, I have no head space in the carboy now. Thinking about siphoning some off, but already pitched the yeast (White Labs San Francisco Lager because of the temps where my primaries are,) so don't want to lose any. Afraid I'm going to blow off the top during the night.
Suggestions? Ideas?
A ProMash Recipe - The Jamil Show - Schwarzbier
Tweaked the hop schedule a little. LBS didn't have Hallertauer pellets so I used Mt Hood whole leaf and adjusted for alpha %. BeerSmith said the final IBUs matched up. Mashed for about an hour at 155* at a 1.2 ratio and then fly sparged with about 18 quarts at 170*. (Forgot to Vorlauf.)
Pre-boil gravity was 1.057 (Recipe target is 1.054.)
So we'll see if I completely ruined the beer or not. After the boil, I chilled it, racked it to the 6.5 gallon primary and took the gravity. Ended up with about 4.5 gallons of wort at 1.077. Way too high. Looked at BeerSmith for options. Ended up diluting the wort with 2 gallons of water and bringing the OG down to 1.053, about where I wanted it. Problem is, I have no head space in the carboy now. Thinking about siphoning some off, but already pitched the yeast (White Labs San Francisco Lager because of the temps where my primaries are,) so don't want to lose any. Afraid I'm going to blow off the top during the night.
Suggestions? Ideas?