| By Jonathan Cahoon on Nov 1st 2009, 6:33 pm | Permalink |
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Yesterday was my first attempt at an all grain, not everything went according to schedual but I got what I wanted. I mashed for nearly two hours at 158' sparging at 170' sparched quickly about fifteen minutes. I went with a little different technique, I had bought a large mesh hop bag large enough to fit my ten gallon cooler. I convertend the cooler as everyone else has to have a controled outlet, but I fitted the bag to the tun and deposited my grains and added the mash wated 171' giving me a solid 158' mash temp. I then proceeded as normal, the bag made clean up a snap I desposed of my spent grains in the yard as "bird feed" that time of year you know. My yield is what ended up short was only three and a half gallons I brought the volume up to five gallons and began my boil. First hop addition immediatly was a 3/4 oz 11.4% Chinook boil began about 15 min later after 30 min, second hop addition of 1/4 oz Chinook 1/2 oz each of 6.3% Challenger and 4.4% Vangaurd 15min more remaining 1/2 oz each of Challenger and Vangaurd 15 more min boil. Chilled down to 100 degrees and transfered to fermenter allowed to cool to 80 degrees. Pitched White Labs English Ale Yeast started night before and put in pantry. |
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