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| By Leslie Fox on Jan 15th 2004, 4:55 pm | Permalink |
| Denny, my crush was about the same. My mash was a lot thicker than normal, 1.15 qts/lb compared to 1.6 qts/lb. I also spent more time mashing in than usual because of the extra grain, my normal batch is 8 to 10 lbs and this was almost 13 lbs. I may be able to figure it out with some experimentation. | |
| By Leslie Fox on Jan 14th 2004, 5:09 pm | Permalink |
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All thanks to the mighty brew gods got a very welcome jump in my extraction yesterday when I was brewing this. for five gallons Beastly Bottom O' the Bin Beer 5 lb am two row 6 lb muntons two row 1 lb crystal 60 .5 lb carapils .25 lb chocolate malt mash at 155 3/4 oz fuggle pellets 4.4aa FWH 1/2 oz centenial pellets 9.9aa FWH 1 oz centenial 60 min wyeast 1056 OG 1.075 I was expecting around 1.065 but I'll take it. Now if I can just figgure out what it was I did differntly this time. |
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| By Leslie Fox on Nov 6th 2003, 3:26 pm | Permalink |
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Brewed for the first time in a couple weeks yesterday and dang if I didn't get a stuck sparge. Some how grain got inside my manifold and then when and clogged up the valve. After every thing got dumped out and then dumped back in I went like a charm. I'm a bit worried about the amount a oxigination that must have happened in the during this whole mess but I'll just have to wait and find out. Anywho here is the recipe Surly Red Head Ale 9 lb british two row 1 lb Crystal 60 luv 1/2 lb Victory Malt 1/3 lb Weat malt 1/2 lb Carapils 3/4 oz EKG 5.2%aa (FWH) 1 oz Centenial 9.4aa(Bittering) white labs Irish Ale OG 1.055 |
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| By Leslie Fox on Jun 26th 2003, 6:55 pm | Permalink |
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I just built my self a counter flow wort chiller and it worked great. However if I had to do it again I probably wouldn't try to do it during the boil. Getting the thing put together, tested and sanitized in under an hour was beyond me. Very well boiled wort. Now I just have to figure out what I’m going to do with the 20 ft of soft copper tubing I have left over Used it on a summer ale that I'm trying to rebrew, this time all grain. Last time I did this beer from DME with a little crystal malt it. It went very fast. Wind Tunnel Blond 8 lb. pale two row 1 lb. crystal (40 luv) 1 oz perle pellets 7.6 aa (bittering) 1/2 oz cascade pellets 6.3 aa (FWH) 3-4 oz pealed and grated ginger (15 min) Wyeast 1056 OG 1.052 (I was aiming for 1.045 but I'm not going to complain about it.) Les |
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