stuey
Events Organiser
..... Tomorrow :party:
Starter is on in the FV Fridge.
Saniclean made up in spray bottle.
All kit checked, double checked, triple checked and ready to go
Camera batts charged.
Just one more sleep!! :party:
38 litres Water in HLT and treatments added (AMS and Campden Tab Crushed)
The Grain Shot
Beautiful Morning at the brewery
Grist in Mash Tun
Underletting
Mash temp was 2 degrees low of my 67 deg target at 65 deg C. Added a kettle full of just off boiling water to bring it back up to 67 deg.
Deducted 1.7 litres of liquor from sparge water.
There is a 7 degree drop in liquor temp from inside HLT to the end of the transfer hose so I have adjusted my sparge liquor temp up to account for it.
Will be increasing Strike temp in future.
So the mash in on with 38 mins to go. STC 1000 holding temp in HLT nicely.
Hops weighed out and labelled up.
Time for a nice coffee!
First runnings jugged back in to MT
Nice clear wort
The runnings don't.. erm ... run as fast as I imagined they would. I guess the compacted grain bed limits the flow as it is filtering.
I reckon we will be looking at 1.5 hrs to get the wort out of the MT at current rate.
So... 1 hour 55 Mins to sparge :shock:
Ended up with 30 litres at a corrected 1049 SG pre boil.
1036 at 60 degrees C Pre boil
Beersmith predicted 30.7 litres at 1042 SG pre boil so volume pretty close but SG not!
All in the boiler now and singing sweetly on its way to boil :)
And... Boiling
First addition in and just a smidge after Hot Break
Second additions, Protofloc and IC in at 15 mins to go.
4 mins to go then final addition. Flameout. Chiller on.
FV ready with paddle, wort aerator, sanitiser, hydrometer, trial jar, thermometer, boiler drain hose, and air lock in it to use chiller water.
Cold break
Phew! bit Frantic at the end there
Aerated into FV via Cnelsonplumber patented wort aerator
Ended up with 20 litres at 1063!!! :shock:
Liquored back to 23 litres at 1051
Whitelabs 002 starter pitched at 27 with the temp dropping rapidly.... got carried away and didn't check temp before pitching so home I've not buggered up there! :)
All tucked up at 20 deg C for 7 days before racking into secondary onto 28 g of Cascade for a further 7 days.
Crossing everything.
Clear up now :shock: :)
Had great day and have learned a great deal about how to streamline the process next time and hopefully how to improve sparging speed.
I think I need to have a greater drop between HLT and MT and then MT to FV where I drain into before tipping into boiler.... I couldn't get the transfer tube from the MT to the bucket to fill so there was little or no siphon effect to draw the wort through. I reckon if I can get more of a vertical line on the tube it might fill up and draw better.
Starter is on in the FV Fridge.
Saniclean made up in spray bottle.
All kit checked, double checked, triple checked and ready to go
Camera batts charged.
Just one more sleep!!
:party:38 litres Water in HLT and treatments added (AMS and Campden Tab Crushed)
The Grain Shot
Beautiful Morning at the brewery
Grist in Mash Tun
Underletting
Mash temp was 2 degrees low of my 67 deg target at 65 deg C. Added a kettle full of just off boiling water to bring it back up to 67 deg.
Deducted 1.7 litres of liquor from sparge water.
There is a 7 degree drop in liquor temp from inside HLT to the end of the transfer hose so I have adjusted my sparge liquor temp up to account for it.
Will be increasing Strike temp in future.
So the mash in on with 38 mins to go. STC 1000 holding temp in HLT nicely.
Hops weighed out and labelled up.
Time for a nice coffee!
First runnings jugged back in to MT
Nice clear wort
The runnings don't.. erm ... run as fast as I imagined they would. I guess the compacted grain bed limits the flow as it is filtering.
I reckon we will be looking at 1.5 hrs to get the wort out of the MT at current rate.
So... 1 hour 55 Mins to sparge :shock:
Ended up with 30 litres at a corrected 1049 SG pre boil.
1036 at 60 degrees C Pre boil
Beersmith predicted 30.7 litres at 1042 SG pre boil so volume pretty close but SG not!
All in the boiler now and singing sweetly on its way to boil :)
And... Boiling
First addition in and just a smidge after Hot Break
Second additions, Protofloc and IC in at 15 mins to go.
4 mins to go then final addition. Flameout. Chiller on.
FV ready with paddle, wort aerator, sanitiser, hydrometer, trial jar, thermometer, boiler drain hose, and air lock in it to use chiller water.
Cold break
Phew! bit Frantic at the end there
Aerated into FV via Cnelsonplumber patented wort aerator
Ended up with 20 litres at 1063!!! :shock:
Liquored back to 23 litres at 1051
Whitelabs 002 starter pitched at 27 with the temp dropping rapidly.... got carried away and didn't check temp before pitching so home I've not buggered up there! :)
All tucked up at 20 deg C for 7 days before racking into secondary onto 28 g of Cascade for a further 7 days.
Crossing everything.
Clear up now :shock: :)
Had great day and have learned a great deal about how to streamline the process next time and hopefully how to improve sparging speed.
I think I need to have a greater drop between HLT and MT and then MT to FV where I drain into before tipping into boiler.... I couldn't get the transfer tube from the MT to the bucket to fill so there was little or no siphon effect to draw the wort through. I reckon if I can get more of a vertical line on the tube it might fill up and draw better.
