new to all grain brewing

[ozziej]

Just tried my first all grain recipe over the week. I think the majority of it went well (hopefully!).

Stupid rookie question- i got in a bit of a time pinch. I had to compress the sparging time- down to about 20 min- and had read that it should usually take about double that.

What would be the potential impact of this? Not acquiring all of the potential sugars and subsequent impacts?

I'm guessing it will still be okay- maybe not as a high an inital SG and maybe not as strong body...

thoughts?

 

[Hex23]

Just tried my first all grain recipe over the week. I think the majority of it went well (hopefully!).

Stupid rookie question- i got in a bit of a time pinch. I had to compress the sparging time- down to about 20 min- and had read that it should usually take about double that.

What would be the potential impact of this? Not acquiring all of the potential sugars and subsequent impacts?

I'm guessing it will still be okay- maybe not as a high an inital SG and maybe not as strong body...

thoughts?

If you were batch sparging the runoff time should not have an impact on lautering efficiency. I use the method where you stir each batch well before runoff, vorlauf, then let-er-rip and I get about 75% efficiency. Have you calculated your efficiency?

 

[duboman]

Just tried my first all grain recipe over the week. I think the majority of it went well (hopefully!).

Stupid rookie question- i got in a bit of a time pinch. I had to compress the sparging time- down to about 20 min- and had read that it should usually take about double that.

What would be the potential impact of this? Not acquiring all of the potential sugars and subsequent impacts?

I'm guessing it will still be okay- maybe not as a high an inital SG and maybe not as strong body...

thoughts?

Sounds like you fly-sparged? It is my understanding it should take 45-60 minutes to fully extract all present sugars in the wort. If you did not do an adequate job then your pre-boil OG would have been way low resulting in the need to add DME or boil longer to concentrate the wort to the proper Post boil OG.

You did not list any gravity readings o it's hard to help with what may hove been wrong but in the end you will have beer!

 

[WoodlandBrew]

Yep, the only down side is lower efficiency. Now if you were sparging to hot, long, or with an imbalanced pH, you would have flavor impacts. If you have reasonable efficiency, don't worry about it.

 

[ozziej]

didn't get the SG reading post mash, but my post boil SG was around 1.05... which was a bit lower than target (1.07)- my sparge temps were right on though...

I guess that we'll see how it turns out!