This is a long one, sorry in advance! And as a preface to the post, I know it's not ruined, and I'm going along with whatever came my way!
OK, so it wasn't THAT horrible. I started off feeling pretty good, I did a 2.5 gal test batch of the dunkelweizen in my sig, with some changes based on what my LHBS had/did not have. The biggest OOPS on the grains was me thinking I would just round up the .125 lbs of CarafaII to .25 to make it easier on measuring and then only use what I needed. That was before I put all the grains together at the store and milled them... no way to separate out the extra CarafaII, hopefully it isn't too burnt/toasty. At least it will be darker, I was concerned it would be too light. I also was going to throw in some rice hulls with this, just in case, so here is hoping I don't get a stuck sparge.
SWMBO did let me pick up a 3 gal glass carboy to do smaller batches in. The LHBS forgot to charge me for it!!!!! Of course I went back and told them about their $45 mistake, and the ended up giving me the thing for what I assume is their cost. Honesty does pay off
Next, everything was going to plan when I started mash prep. Had some hot water in the new 5 gal MLT to preheat, had the water on the stove heating to the right temp per BeerSmith. I drained the water from the MLT a little early, realised it cooled down (left the lid off) and quickly jumped onto BeerSmith to adjust for a no-preheat MLT. Got my water to the 170F required, dumped it in and check the temp. Everything was fine, EXCEPT that I misread the thermometer and thought I was 10F too high, and proceeded to add some cold water to bring them temp down. THEN I realised what I had done, and had to boil some water and bring it back up. It was about 10 mins before I had it close enough to the target of 155F (153F was my actual), and said it will be fine and let it go. All the while, my braid keeps floating up!
So I crack open a Pete's Wicked Ale, as I am out of HB to RDWHAHB with. Guess that makes it RDWHACB That's where I'm at now, let see how the rest goes in 35 mins.
OK, so it wasn't THAT horrible. I started off feeling pretty good, I did a 2.5 gal test batch of the dunkelweizen in my sig, with some changes based on what my LHBS had/did not have. The biggest OOPS on the grains was me thinking I would just round up the .125 lbs of CarafaII to .25 to make it easier on measuring and then only use what I needed. That was before I put all the grains together at the store and milled them... no way to separate out the extra CarafaII, hopefully it isn't too burnt/toasty. At least it will be darker, I was concerned it would be too light. I also was going to throw in some rice hulls with this, just in case, so here is hoping I don't get a stuck sparge.
SWMBO did let me pick up a 3 gal glass carboy to do smaller batches in. The LHBS forgot to charge me for it!!!!! Of course I went back and told them about their $45 mistake, and the ended up giving me the thing for what I assume is their cost. Honesty does pay off
Next, everything was going to plan when I started mash prep. Had some hot water in the new 5 gal MLT to preheat, had the water on the stove heating to the right temp per BeerSmith. I drained the water from the MLT a little early, realised it cooled down (left the lid off) and quickly jumped onto BeerSmith to adjust for a no-preheat MLT. Got my water to the 170F required, dumped it in and check the temp. Everything was fine, EXCEPT that I misread the thermometer and thought I was 10F too high, and proceeded to add some cold water to bring them temp down. THEN I realised what I had done, and had to boil some water and bring it back up. It was about 10 mins before I had it close enough to the target of 155F (153F was my actual), and said it will be fine and let it go. All the while, my braid keeps floating up!
So I crack open a Pete's Wicked Ale, as I am out of HB to RDWHAHB with. Guess that makes it RDWHACB That's where I'm at now, let see how the rest goes in 35 mins.