Made the ultra rookie mistake today

[CoastalEmpireBrewery]

So I got up early this morning ready to brew my mocha cream stout that I designed... Well got into a rush when milling my grains and didn't realize someone was playing with it and set it from my medium crush to...... FLOURED!!! So needless to say I added about a pound of rice hulls and even then it still turns into concrete in the bottom of my brew magic... So what I started at 9am and should be inoculating at 2pm is still steadily dripping away from the MLT into the boil kettle... Something should have told me to check it like I usually do but got in a hurry and now look where I am... Definitely very frustrated and I'm sure my efficiency will fall out the bottom on this brew but just goes to show me that even though I've brewed 100+ all grain batches, patience, checking equipment and rechecking is the key to an easy going brew day... If I'm finished by 8pm (exaggeration hopefully) I will be surprised..

 

[BrewerinBR]

Your efficiency should go up, the finer the crush the more surface area there is for the ezymmes to attach. Not sure how flour would work but you should get a great BG... may be a PITA to sparge

 

[iamwhatiseem]

This exact same thing happened to me last year, only I didn't crush the grains, I bought them crushed from northern brewer...somebody got a little carried away - anyhow it turned to concrete. I had to dump out the mash tun into a large plastic bin I have TWICE to get past complete stuck sparges. Nightmare, it took me a good 3 hours to finally drain/rinse the grains.

* note - I sent a pic of the "mud" in the tun to northern brewer and once again the great company they are - sent me the kit again for free plus a free pint glass for my troubles.

 

[day_trippr]

[...]may be a PITA to sparge

Clearly, he's well beyond "may"...

Cheers!

 

[CoastalEmpireBrewery]

Finally got it all sparged out after about two hours of cursing... I decided to collect every drop of wort I could get to hopefully help my efficiency

 

[CoastalEmpireBrewery]

Then tragedy struck again... Like an idiot I didn't check to make sure I had enough propane... Boiling it down and ran out.... I definitely failed the brew God's today..

 

[Stillraining]

Ground hog day..

FWIW my last brew day was one of my worst as well..and it was a simple SMASH for crying out loud....it happens

 

[CoastalEmpireBrewery]

That it does but the beer looks and smells amazing. The efficiency turned out amazing

 

[hucklb]

3:20 am?? Wow.

 

[EcuPirate07]

Newtons Law

 

[CoastalEmpireBrewery]

320am??

 

[billybryson54]

Just out of curiosity, what was your recipe? I've been looking to do something similar....

 

[CoastalEmpireBrewery]

Just out of curiosity, what was your recipe? I've been looking to do something similar....

Private message me and I'll send you the recipe.. I just racked it to the secondary today on top of the cold pressed coffee and cocoa nibs. It smells amazing.