Ok I was semi successful on my first all grain with the robobrew. Sorry this is long.
Dough in was fine. Needed to add in about a gallon to keep the mash stirable.
On mash out turned heat up. Turned pump on to grab any grain, but still got a scorch error almost immediately. Shut off to reset.
Sparged with about a gallon of hot water. Was prob too hot. Had some 180 water in a cooler for topoff and cleaning.
Had a little compaction and inconsistent flow. I used the cover and had a diffuser on the pump hose. Moved it around every few minutes but the cover was noticeably cocked. Slow sparge. Set the mash in a bucket to collect the last of the wort.
Added hot water to get to 6 gallons for boil.
Boil was pretty uneventful. Set at 104 kept a constant 102 and a low to med boil.
I cooked a more beer Soulless Hop Pale ale kit. Saved the 10 and 1 min citra hops, 4 oz, for fire out and ran the pump 10 min.
Because of the change I forgot the whirfloc.
Didn’t boil off enough. Still had almost 6 gallons of wort at end of boil.
Used the immersion chiller backwards. Realized I didn’t have the right pump to pump slurry water through the coil, so I used the robobrew pump to pump wort through it while sitting in a cooler. Got to 80F in less than 15 minutes. By the way it cleaned out fine.
Gave the pot a couple good swirls and let it settle. Loaded up the carboy. Looks a little dark.
Just pitched my yeast. And we’ll see how it goes. That’s an extract blue moon clone for my wife in the spiedel.
Thank for listening.
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