Made my first attempt at brewing beer. Went bold and did all grain outright (BIAB) after a bunch of reading. Just did a basic beer. Strangebrew's smores stout i got as a Christmas gift. Did 3 quarts/pound. Obviously a thinner mash. Was supposed to be 1.055. I got 1.060, which is ~85% efficiency (w00t). The grain was a coarser crush so i just blended it further in a electric blender (bullet like thing) for a bit to get it finer. Ended up being a bit lower on the water going into the boil than expected so I did a fly sparge of 3 quarts to bring it up. I still need a chiller so i just tossed it outside until it was ~80f then pitched yeast after rehydrating according to package instructions. Now it's bubbling away!
I'm quite happy with my yield. Next time, I think I'll leave the water volume a bit higher to account for the volume loss due to trub so I can get closer to an actual 5gallon final yield of bottled beer.
All in all YAY! success. Not using my basic set up before, I wasn't sure what the yield would be. Just went with what was most common and made sense. Hopefully my attenuation will be as expected.
I'm quite happy with my yield. Next time, I think I'll leave the water volume a bit higher to account for the volume loss due to trub so I can get closer to an actual 5gallon final yield of bottled beer.
All in all YAY! success. Not using my basic set up before, I wasn't sure what the yield would be. Just went with what was most common and made sense. Hopefully my attenuation will be as expected.
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