Jay
04-14-2006, 08:12 AM
Sorry it took so long to get this post up. The beer is sitting in it's primary nice and happy! :)
All went very well. No problems with the brew itself. I was a little shocked that we started and 10am and ended at 3pm - kinda fast :| A couple of items that I would contribute to the speed.
I utilized my hostwater heater for the starter water - 156f - this helped getting things going :)
As we sparged, after I got about 1 inch in the bottom of the kettle, I kicked the heat on the boil. As soon as the sparge was complete - we had a rolling boil
We utilized a pump to push the wort thru the plate chiller, usually we have to WAIT FOREVER for the kettle to drain. The pump sucked it right out!
In the future, I plan on doing direct heating of the mash, and pumping into the sparge with a float switch, we'll see how it works ;) Long term going to try to do some type of rims system to maintain the heat.
Attached it the complete reciepe and notes to date. But also here is the reciepe as I brewed it this time.
All went very well. No problems with the brew itself. I was a little shocked that we started and 10am and ended at 3pm - kinda fast :| A couple of items that I would contribute to the speed.
I utilized my hostwater heater for the starter water - 156f - this helped getting things going :)
As we sparged, after I got about 1 inch in the bottom of the kettle, I kicked the heat on the boil. As soon as the sparge was complete - we had a rolling boil
We utilized a pump to push the wort thru the plate chiller, usually we have to WAIT FOREVER for the kettle to drain. The pump sucked it right out!
In the future, I plan on doing direct heating of the mash, and pumping into the sparge with a float switch, we'll see how it works ;) Long term going to try to do some type of rims system to maintain the heat.
Attached it the complete reciepe and notes to date. But also here is the reciepe as I brewed it this time.