eamonnfoley
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Just finished my first all grain, BIAB. Tiring day in 38 degree heat, will wait for a cooler day next time I brew.
I brewed an american pale ale outdoors with my new equipment. Had the following dramas:
1) Accidentally mashed at 70-71C for the first 20 mins or so. Rest of the hour it dropped to about 68C. Will this ruin it? Too many dextrins?
2) broke my hydrometer while cleaning it - no OG reading.
3) Was planning for a 24L litre brew. Somehow only ended up with 19.5L in the fermenter. I have a brewpot with a hopscreen and pickup tube (from Beerbelly). A fair bit was stuck in the brewpot after with the sludge. Is it normal to lose that much? I also might have mismeasured my heights on the brewpot to estimate 27.5L (preboil). IT is a big pot -50L, 40cm diameter
4) I had my burner & pot elevated quite high on a stack of bricks, but still found it very hard to rack via gravity through my plate chiller to the fermenter. Had to fiddle with the chiller itself on different angles eventually having it rested on the top of the fermenter.
5) Worse still the wort was still pretty hot after one pass into the fermente. Off the scale for the stick on thermometer (40+C). It took 3 hours to get it below 30 in an ice/water bath in the laundry. I couldnt bring myself to take another run through the chiller given risk of infection and my problems getting it to rack with gravity.
6) My ball valve was leaking during the session, as well as my thermometer which is also screwed into the brewpot.
Anyway its in the fridge now set for 19C (Pitched at about 28-29C). See how it turns out, but I'm a bit frustrated with it all!
Any advice would be welcomed!
Foles.
I brewed an american pale ale outdoors with my new equipment. Had the following dramas:
1) Accidentally mashed at 70-71C for the first 20 mins or so. Rest of the hour it dropped to about 68C. Will this ruin it? Too many dextrins?
2) broke my hydrometer while cleaning it - no OG reading.
3) Was planning for a 24L litre brew. Somehow only ended up with 19.5L in the fermenter. I have a brewpot with a hopscreen and pickup tube (from Beerbelly). A fair bit was stuck in the brewpot after with the sludge. Is it normal to lose that much? I also might have mismeasured my heights on the brewpot to estimate 27.5L (preboil). IT is a big pot -50L, 40cm diameter
4) I had my burner & pot elevated quite high on a stack of bricks, but still found it very hard to rack via gravity through my plate chiller to the fermenter. Had to fiddle with the chiller itself on different angles eventually having it rested on the top of the fermenter.
5) Worse still the wort was still pretty hot after one pass into the fermente. Off the scale for the stick on thermometer (40+C). It took 3 hours to get it below 30 in an ice/water bath in the laundry. I couldnt bring myself to take another run through the chiller given risk of infection and my problems getting it to rack with gravity.
6) My ball valve was leaking during the session, as well as my thermometer which is also screwed into the brewpot.
Anyway its in the fridge now set for 19C (Pitched at about 28-29C). See how it turns out, but I'm a bit frustrated with it all!
Any advice would be welcomed!
Foles.