Hi,
I tried my first all grain today. I had a incident with my glass carboy so I am using a 5 gal water jug I drilled a hole in and shoved a airlock in. It has been 5 hours since I pitched the smack pack, it is a 2.5 gal batch Eliot Ness clone. I am worried maybe I didn't do the mash right. I used about 3.5 gal of water for the initial mash and let it sit at about 155 to 160 for about a hour and did a fly sparge to get to a total of about 4 gal and boiled off about a gallon. Is it possible I didn't get enough sugars out of my mash?
I tried my first all grain today. I had a incident with my glass carboy so I am using a 5 gal water jug I drilled a hole in and shoved a airlock in. It has been 5 hours since I pitched the smack pack, it is a 2.5 gal batch Eliot Ness clone. I am worried maybe I didn't do the mash right. I used about 3.5 gal of water for the initial mash and let it sit at about 155 to 160 for about a hour and did a fly sparge to get to a total of about 4 gal and boiled off about a gallon. Is it possible I didn't get enough sugars out of my mash?