Fizzycist
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Get ready for a novel. Sorry it's long.
Today I actually had my first beer brewing since I finally got my cider bottled. It didn't really go smoothly. I know standard responses here, RDWHAHB, instead of beer I made beer, but it was slightly frustrating the things that didn't work as planned. So I'm just looking for some commiseration. It was a slightly modified Deception Cream Stout. Modified mostly because I read some amounts wrong, did a poor job of measuring and didn't want to mess with liquid yeast. Here is the entry from my brewing journal.
3.3 lbs Breiss Amber LME
~1.5 lbs Breiss Amber DME
1 lbs Bavarian Wheat DME
1 lbs Chocolate Malt
.75 lbs 60L Crystal Malt
.5 lbs Roasted Barley
.75 oz American Magnum (60 min)
1 Whirlfloc (10 min)
½ lbs lactose (10 min)
½ tsp Wyeast yeast nutrient (5 min)
1 pack Safale S-04
2/5/12 (Brew day)
Method: (assume proper sanitization, which might be a big assumption)
Unfortunately I didn’t measure any of the water. Also, I didn’t weigh out the amber DME, just guessed at ½ a 3 lb pound bag.
Anyway, brought about 4 gallons to 155 degrees, steeped the chocolate and crystal malts and roasted barley for 30 minutes in a paint strainer bag. Didn’t measure ending temp, grains filtered out nicely. Added more water to about 6 gallons, brought to boil. Added all the DME and hops pretty quickly with brew buddy stirring. Didn’t realize I was supposed to wait till after hot break to add hops. Hot break came quickly though, like 10 minutes. Boil went smooth, like a just barely roiling boil. Other things all went in on time.
After boil, it looked like about 4 gallons again. The pot was really wide, must have lost more liquid than expected. Put the pot in ice water, got it down to 75 ish pretty quick. Topped off with some more water, don't know how much cuz we didn't measure before boiling the top off Gravity was really high, like 1.080. Had to boil more water, never measured how much, ran the risk of boiling, cooling outside, adding water to carboy, just blegh. Good chance I screwed up sanitation in there somewhere, but I just went nuts with the iodophor, so hopefully it’s ok. Don’t know final volume, looks 5.5 ish, but OG at 1.059 at 75 degrees. Pitched the yeast on top, then drove my carboy home, so it got all shook up. Fixed on the blow off tube but the stopper looks kinda not sealed around the tube.
Edit: oh yeah, it took about 2 hours longer than expected, waiting for top off water to boil and cool.
Today I actually had my first beer brewing since I finally got my cider bottled. It didn't really go smoothly. I know standard responses here, RDWHAHB, instead of beer I made beer, but it was slightly frustrating the things that didn't work as planned. So I'm just looking for some commiseration. It was a slightly modified Deception Cream Stout. Modified mostly because I read some amounts wrong, did a poor job of measuring and didn't want to mess with liquid yeast. Here is the entry from my brewing journal.
3.3 lbs Breiss Amber LME
~1.5 lbs Breiss Amber DME
1 lbs Bavarian Wheat DME
1 lbs Chocolate Malt
.75 lbs 60L Crystal Malt
.5 lbs Roasted Barley
.75 oz American Magnum (60 min)
1 Whirlfloc (10 min)
½ lbs lactose (10 min)
½ tsp Wyeast yeast nutrient (5 min)
1 pack Safale S-04
2/5/12 (Brew day)
Method: (assume proper sanitization, which might be a big assumption)
Unfortunately I didn’t measure any of the water. Also, I didn’t weigh out the amber DME, just guessed at ½ a 3 lb pound bag.
Anyway, brought about 4 gallons to 155 degrees, steeped the chocolate and crystal malts and roasted barley for 30 minutes in a paint strainer bag. Didn’t measure ending temp, grains filtered out nicely. Added more water to about 6 gallons, brought to boil. Added all the DME and hops pretty quickly with brew buddy stirring. Didn’t realize I was supposed to wait till after hot break to add hops. Hot break came quickly though, like 10 minutes. Boil went smooth, like a just barely roiling boil. Other things all went in on time.
After boil, it looked like about 4 gallons again. The pot was really wide, must have lost more liquid than expected. Put the pot in ice water, got it down to 75 ish pretty quick. Topped off with some more water, don't know how much cuz we didn't measure before boiling the top off Gravity was really high, like 1.080. Had to boil more water, never measured how much, ran the risk of boiling, cooling outside, adding water to carboy, just blegh. Good chance I screwed up sanitation in there somewhere, but I just went nuts with the iodophor, so hopefully it’s ok. Don’t know final volume, looks 5.5 ish, but OG at 1.059 at 75 degrees. Pitched the yeast on top, then drove my carboy home, so it got all shook up. Fixed on the blow off tube but the stopper looks kinda not sealed around the tube.
Edit: oh yeah, it took about 2 hours longer than expected, waiting for top off water to boil and cool.
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