Need guidance - all grain blonde ale isn't fermenting.

[dsdeez]

I'm new to all grain and my blonde isn't fermenting, here's what I did. So I brewed a blonde ale with 8.25lbs of 2-row, 1lb of flaked corn and 6oz of honey malt. For my mash, I got my 2quarts of water to 220 and poured it in my mash tun with grains already in the tun. I expected I would get a 5 degree loss in temp for every pound of grain which keeps my grain at 195. I kept the tun opens and stirred the grain for five minutes to get the temp down to 155 degrees. I closed the lid and let that sock for 60mins. After that I got my 5 quarts of sparged water to 170 and poured it in, stirred and drained into my pan for boil and hops. After my hop schedule and boil for 60mins I transferred to my fermenting bucket. I did a yeast start and realized I was out of dme so I actually pitched my yeast three days after I brewed. Since I've pitched my yeast, which my fermenter is at 72 degrees, my airlock hasn't bubbled at all.

Any thought? As I'm new to all grain, did I do it correctly? What did I miss or any suggestion?

 

[Yooper]

What is the current gravity reading, and where did it start when you put it in the fermenter?

It's probably fermented out already, if it's been 72 degrees. It may have fermented out overnight if it was that warm. In order to see if it needs anything done, a current SG reading is crucial.

 

[dsdeez]

Good call. I measure it at pitching and it was 1.036 and now it's 1.022.

 

[boydster]

I'm new to all grain and my blonde isn't fermenting, here's what I did. So I brewed a blonde ale with 8.25lbs of 2-row, 1lb of flaked corn and 6oz of honey malt. For my mash, I got my 2quarts of water to 220 and poured it in my mash tun with grains already in the tun. I expected I would get a 5 degree loss in temp for every pound of grain which keeps my grain at 195. I kept the tun opens and stirred the grain for five minutes to get the temp down to 155 degrees. I closed the lid and let that sock for 60mins. After that I got my 5 quarts of sparged water to 170 and poured it in, stirred and drained into my pan for boil and hops. After my hop schedule and boil for 60mins I transferred to my fermenting bucket. I did a yeast start and realized I was out of dme so I actually pitched my yeast three days after I brewed. Since I've pitched my yeast, which my fermenter is at 72 degrees, my airlock hasn't bubbled at all.

Any thought? As I'm new to all grain, did I do it correctly? What did I miss or any suggestion?

Help me understand. Water boils at 212°, but you said you brought it up to 220? And you must have used more than 2 quarts of water in the mash, with almost 10 lbs of grain, right? If either of those was not a typo, it makes sense why your OG was so low. It sounds like some fermentation occurred, since your gravity has dropped, but if you actually started your mash at 195° with 2 quarts of water, I couldn't even begin to guess what to expect for a target FG, but having the mash at 195 for any length of time will denature some of the enzymes that you need to convert the starches to fermentable sugars.

A typical mash will use somewhere around 1.25 quarts of water per pound of grain, followed by a sparge with ~170° water to get up to the preboil volume you need.

 

[MichaelScime]

This may be the wrong thread section for this, Welcome though

 

[EJay]

For my mash, I got my 2quarts of water to 220 and poured it in my mash tun with grains already in the tun. I expected I would get a 5 degree loss in temp for every pound of grain which keeps my grain at 195. I kept the tun opens and stirred the grain for five minutes to get the temp down to 155 degrees.

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Any thought? As I'm new to all grain, did I do it correctly? What did I miss or any suggestion?

I'm no expert, but I don't understand any of your method. Assuming you got water to boiling (212) - where did you read to put that straight on your grains? Seems to me you'd kill the enzymes. And 5 degrees loss for each pound seems big too. And if you can cool 195 to 155 in 5 minutes by stirring, that's quite a feat too. What instructions were you following?