So this was pretty much based on MyQuls recipe
I did measure out 220 Chocolate malt and 320 Roasted malt and stuck them in preboiled water about 2.5 liters off cooled to room temp and left that room cold steeping the night before
I milled up my 3.5kg of MO and bunged it in my spare pot with my flaked barley. worrying about my efficiency on my new setup i milled a couple hundred grams of pilsner (thats what I had lying around) but literally 150-200 and bunged that in..
Anyway The stupid mistake I made was agreeing to pick up my grandmother at 12:10 today and go to my mums for lunch forgetting my time schedule so I started today at 910am.. really left myself no time at all I rushed to be honest so was clumsy and making all kinds of mess.
Despite this I mashed okay and I did try a mash out although it was tricky with two bags (one of which had a hole in at the end cheap bag wont be using them again!! I did literally mash a bit sparingly on time..
My other mistake which isn;t really a mistake but something I need to adjust was despite my efforts my water calulations were really wrong I had about 30L pre boil!! I need to adjust the amount of grain absorption I went with 1kg per liter on Brwemate but as I say the numbers just didn't add up since I had way too much wort and not enough time to boil it down!!
I had to leave half way through the boil (leaving it going to drop my nan off) apologise to my mum and said Id be back to go home finish off the boil bang on the hour.. chill with just 15 minutes with wort chiller which did get it down to 40 odd.. then i dumped it in my fermenter and left in the garden..
annoyingly I had a couple of liters still in the pot which went to waste I probably ended up with 26 liters of wort!!
Anyway left to cool in the shade and I was shooting for 1047 but its 1044 no great disaster considering I went overboard on the water in fact its pretty good, I also upped my dark grain by 10% on myquls (thought cold steep may need it) so stroke of luck it probably hasn't done too much damage..
I am a few points down and had to picth the US05 at 25úc (its coming down and still outside where its cooling down a bit now) I left the lid on all afternoon so I hope its okay only removed it now to stir and pitch.
All in all a bit stressful but that was my own fault.. I miscalculated my time and the water .. the water I will accept is one of those with new equipment I can adjust this for my next brew.. Ill put some pics up in a bit..
Wort tastes good anyway:drink: < that colour too which is a good start
I did measure out 220 Chocolate malt and 320 Roasted malt and stuck them in preboiled water about 2.5 liters off cooled to room temp and left that room cold steeping the night before
I milled up my 3.5kg of MO and bunged it in my spare pot with my flaked barley. worrying about my efficiency on my new setup i milled a couple hundred grams of pilsner (thats what I had lying around) but literally 150-200 and bunged that in..
Anyway The stupid mistake I made was agreeing to pick up my grandmother at 12:10 today and go to my mums for lunch forgetting my time schedule so I started today at 910am.. really left myself no time at all I rushed to be honest so was clumsy and making all kinds of mess.
Despite this I mashed okay and I did try a mash out although it was tricky with two bags (one of which had a hole in at the end cheap bag wont be using them again!! I did literally mash a bit sparingly on time..
My other mistake which isn;t really a mistake but something I need to adjust was despite my efforts my water calulations were really wrong I had about 30L pre boil!! I need to adjust the amount of grain absorption I went with 1kg per liter on Brwemate but as I say the numbers just didn't add up since I had way too much wort and not enough time to boil it down!!
I had to leave half way through the boil (leaving it going to drop my nan off) apologise to my mum and said Id be back to go home finish off the boil bang on the hour.. chill with just 15 minutes with wort chiller which did get it down to 40 odd.. then i dumped it in my fermenter and left in the garden..
annoyingly I had a couple of liters still in the pot which went to waste I probably ended up with 26 liters of wort!!
Anyway left to cool in the shade and I was shooting for 1047 but its 1044 no great disaster considering I went overboard on the water in fact its pretty good, I also upped my dark grain by 10% on myquls (thought cold steep may need it) so stroke of luck it probably hasn't done too much damage..
I am a few points down and had to picth the US05 at 25úc (its coming down and still outside where its cooling down a bit now) I left the lid on all afternoon so I hope its okay only removed it now to stir and pitch.
All in all a bit stressful but that was my own fault.. I miscalculated my time and the water .. the water I will accept is one of those with new equipment I can adjust this for my next brew.. Ill put some pics up in a bit..
Wort tastes good anyway:drink: < that colour too which is a good start