poopyhead
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So me an my buddy tried a partial mash recipe of a yuengling clone last night
i am quite limited with my equiptment in that mostly i dont yet have a propane burner or a big enough pot to boil an entire 5 gallon batch. I hope that my makeshift brew technique will work out well. please let me know if you think it will turn out well. any suggestions or criticism is appreciated.
(BTW I've only done 3 extract brews prior to this, first one turned out decent, second one tasted pretty good just too bitter, 3rd one still in primary)
here is the recipe i tried to compile from a few all grain and extract recipes i found on this forum.
3 lb 2 row pilsner grain
1 lb carapils grain
1 lb caramel grain
1 lb flaked maize
boil
3.3 lb pilsner LME
1 oz chinook - 60 min
.5 oz cascade - 15 min
.5 oz cascade - 5
american lager yeast
so i first tried to make a mash with the grains in my 4 gallon pot using 2 gallons of water. i tried to use deathbrewers technique with the grain bag from one of his posts. I attempted to keep the temperature around 155 F for 1 hour but it turned out to be a lot more dificult than i thought. the temperature ranged from 140 F to 170 F and fluxtuated a lot.
since i didnt have an extra pot to sparge with i filled a sanitized 5 gal bucket up with 2 gallons of 165 F water and i "teabaged" the grains in this bucket for 10 min.
I wasnt sure if id be able to boil the sparged wort with the original wort so i left the sparged wort out of the boil (the wort in the bucket). (I feel like that was a bad decision). Then i realized that there wasnt much wort in the boil, the grains soaked up a lot of the water, so i added 6 cups of water.
I then continued the boil and added LME and hops as regular and pitched the yeast as usual. the OG was 1.040. i checked it this morning and saw signs of fermentation and moved it to the basement were its cooler.
Will it turn out OK? this is really the best i can do for now because of my equipment limitations so maybe i should just stick to extract until i get a propane burner and bigger pot. Suggestions adn critisim appreciated.:
i am quite limited with my equiptment in that mostly i dont yet have a propane burner or a big enough pot to boil an entire 5 gallon batch. I hope that my makeshift brew technique will work out well. please let me know if you think it will turn out well. any suggestions or criticism is appreciated.
(BTW I've only done 3 extract brews prior to this, first one turned out decent, second one tasted pretty good just too bitter, 3rd one still in primary)
here is the recipe i tried to compile from a few all grain and extract recipes i found on this forum.
3 lb 2 row pilsner grain
1 lb carapils grain
1 lb caramel grain
1 lb flaked maize
boil
3.3 lb pilsner LME
1 oz chinook - 60 min
.5 oz cascade - 15 min
.5 oz cascade - 5
american lager yeast
so i first tried to make a mash with the grains in my 4 gallon pot using 2 gallons of water. i tried to use deathbrewers technique with the grain bag from one of his posts. I attempted to keep the temperature around 155 F for 1 hour but it turned out to be a lot more dificult than i thought. the temperature ranged from 140 F to 170 F and fluxtuated a lot.
since i didnt have an extra pot to sparge with i filled a sanitized 5 gal bucket up with 2 gallons of 165 F water and i "teabaged" the grains in this bucket for 10 min.
I wasnt sure if id be able to boil the sparged wort with the original wort so i left the sparged wort out of the boil (the wort in the bucket). (I feel like that was a bad decision). Then i realized that there wasnt much wort in the boil, the grains soaked up a lot of the water, so i added 6 cups of water.
I then continued the boil and added LME and hops as regular and pitched the yeast as usual. the OG was 1.040. i checked it this morning and saw signs of fermentation and moved it to the basement were its cooler.
Will it turn out OK? this is really the best i can do for now because of my equipment limitations so maybe i should just stick to extract until i get a propane burner and bigger pot. Suggestions adn critisim appreciated.: