Hello,
My first beer all by myself is in the primary fermenter right now and I have some questions.
Recipe:
6 lbs pale malt
500 gr dark chocolate malt
400 gr oatmeal
I wanted to have 11.3L (3 Gal) of oatmeal stout in the fermenter.
I started by putting the oatmeal in 7L water and resting at 40 deg C (110F) for 15 min (beta-glucanase). Then I got up to 56 deg C and putted in the rest. I rested 30 min at 56 deg. Then I added 3L of boiling water to get up to 68 deg C (whic ended up being 70 deg C) for 45 min.
At this point my beer had a great dark color. I sparged with 4.2L but I ended up with an almost stuck mash. I added 2L more water hoping to unstuck the mash but my beer got brown. Finally I filtered manually the wort with a caged spoon and ended up with about 16L of brown wort in the boiler. Probably ended up with some particules
I wanted to get an OG of 1.07, but I had to evaporate 10L in order to get it! So have 6L left in ther primary.
I added hop pellets but I crushed them. When I helped my friend with another batch the big pellets made the pot have exploding bubbles and the water burned him and I wanted to avoid that. Now there is hop particule in my beer, is it normal or desirable?
What is going to happen with wort like this in the fermenter? What can I expect. My secondary is 11,3L, how do I fix that?
thank you
My first beer all by myself is in the primary fermenter right now and I have some questions.
Recipe:
6 lbs pale malt
500 gr dark chocolate malt
400 gr oatmeal
I wanted to have 11.3L (3 Gal) of oatmeal stout in the fermenter.
I started by putting the oatmeal in 7L water and resting at 40 deg C (110F) for 15 min (beta-glucanase). Then I got up to 56 deg C and putted in the rest. I rested 30 min at 56 deg. Then I added 3L of boiling water to get up to 68 deg C (whic ended up being 70 deg C) for 45 min.
At this point my beer had a great dark color. I sparged with 4.2L but I ended up with an almost stuck mash. I added 2L more water hoping to unstuck the mash but my beer got brown. Finally I filtered manually the wort with a caged spoon and ended up with about 16L of brown wort in the boiler. Probably ended up with some particules
I wanted to get an OG of 1.07, but I had to evaporate 10L in order to get it! So have 6L left in ther primary.
I added hop pellets but I crushed them. When I helped my friend with another batch the big pellets made the pot have exploding bubbles and the water burned him and I wanted to avoid that. Now there is hop particule in my beer, is it normal or desirable?
What is going to happen with wort like this in the fermenter? What can I expect. My secondary is 11,3L, how do I fix that?
thank you