aljeffryes
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Hello all, I have been home brewing with pretty good success of a few years ow until recently. My last 8-10 batches have all been partial mash, here is the issue... I constantly have high final gravities, it's a good day if I can get a batch to reach 1.016 before bottling. However, I have done many extract (coopers), wines and ciders using the same water and temperatures I use for beer, with great results. Long story short, it has to be my mash!
I recently did a pale ale from Austin HBS I followed their partial mash instructions to the T, I even bought a nice digital thermometer because I thought my cheap one might have been the issue. It wasn't. Here is my brew day
Mashed the grain in 2 gal of water, I maintained a 149-154 temp (I take me pot off of the burner I just leave it on simmer). I mashed for one hour. I sparge with the recommended amount of 170 water. I boil for an hour, add my hops and cool quickly. I pitched Mangove Jack M10. One week later and it's stuck at 1.022, I roused the head and over 24 more hours nothing. I even pitched some muntons ale yeast in there, 24 more hours, it dropped 2 points.
I'm no expert but it seems I'm not getting good conversion during my mash. I have not had a PM batch reach its target final gravity for 8 batches or so. Can someone please help me I don't know what else to do and I don't want to take a step back to extract brewing. I use BIAB for the mashing part. Thanks so much!!
I recently did a pale ale from Austin HBS I followed their partial mash instructions to the T, I even bought a nice digital thermometer because I thought my cheap one might have been the issue. It wasn't. Here is my brew day
Mashed the grain in 2 gal of water, I maintained a 149-154 temp (I take me pot off of the burner I just leave it on simmer). I mashed for one hour. I sparge with the recommended amount of 170 water. I boil for an hour, add my hops and cool quickly. I pitched Mangove Jack M10. One week later and it's stuck at 1.022, I roused the head and over 24 more hours nothing. I even pitched some muntons ale yeast in there, 24 more hours, it dropped 2 points.
I'm no expert but it seems I'm not getting good conversion during my mash. I have not had a PM batch reach its target final gravity for 8 batches or so. Can someone please help me I don't know what else to do and I don't want to take a step back to extract brewing. I use BIAB for the mashing part. Thanks so much!!