This is actually about trying to do step mashes in a Grainfather.
Sunday I fancied using the MJ20 Bavarian Wheat for the first of a small number of beers with this yeast, Also on the list are a Roggenbier and a Dunkelweisen but first off was a Weissbier. Dead simple recipe:
Pale Malt 3kg
Wheat Malt 2.5kg
Flaked Oats 200g
Huell Melon 30g at First Wort.
Fancy bit was dough in at 37C, then up to 42C for 10 mins and some other stuff.
Made no odds what the rest of it was because stepping the temp up to 42C made a great load of gunk stick and burn on the bottom of the GF. Fortunately my unit cut out fairly pronto. It routinely cuts out at ~ 82C post sparge, on the basis of a tiny amount of gunk. Or just because it can?
So, frantic messing around, pumping wort out and into one FV, putting the Grain Basket into another, cleaning the GF, scrubbing for about 10-15 mins with a green scouring thingy, whilst straining as much wort through sieves etc. Then re-float the mash by pouring the wort down the centre pipe via a funnel. Managed to get it up to mashing temps at least and then carry on as per usual.
69% BH efficiency (ugh) but at least have almost 24L of beer fermenting in the FV.
Guess what? Same thing happened last time I tried anything fancier than than single infusion mash at 65C on the damn unit (the one that cuts out every time someone so much as makes toast in the same kitchen). And it was a wheat beer, with a "protein rest" at 55C.
I was out and about today, picking up groceries, and as my raspberry wheat beer experiment went well, bought another 3.1kg of frozen raspberries. That should learn it
Maybe it could "learn" me not to try anything fancy with a dodgy GF, albeit Sunday was #121 with the damn unit.
Sunday I fancied using the MJ20 Bavarian Wheat for the first of a small number of beers with this yeast, Also on the list are a Roggenbier and a Dunkelweisen but first off was a Weissbier. Dead simple recipe:
Pale Malt 3kg
Wheat Malt 2.5kg
Flaked Oats 200g
Huell Melon 30g at First Wort.
Fancy bit was dough in at 37C, then up to 42C for 10 mins and some other stuff.
Made no odds what the rest of it was because stepping the temp up to 42C made a great load of gunk stick and burn on the bottom of the GF. Fortunately my unit cut out fairly pronto. It routinely cuts out at ~ 82C post sparge, on the basis of a tiny amount of gunk. Or just because it can?
So, frantic messing around, pumping wort out and into one FV, putting the Grain Basket into another, cleaning the GF, scrubbing for about 10-15 mins with a green scouring thingy, whilst straining as much wort through sieves etc. Then re-float the mash by pouring the wort down the centre pipe via a funnel. Managed to get it up to mashing temps at least and then carry on as per usual.
69% BH efficiency (ugh) but at least have almost 24L of beer fermenting in the FV.
Guess what? Same thing happened last time I tried anything fancier than than single infusion mash at 65C on the damn unit (the one that cuts out every time someone so much as makes toast in the same kitchen). And it was a wheat beer, with a "protein rest" at 55C.
I was out and about today, picking up groceries, and as my raspberry wheat beer experiment went well, bought another 3.1kg of frozen raspberries. That should learn it
Maybe it could "learn" me not to try anything fancy with a dodgy GF, albeit Sunday was #121 with the damn unit.
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