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All Grainer.....No Brainer......!

Put down the above recipe on Sat, single 60 Min addition of PoR flowers,
Went really well, I nailed my strike temp (64) first go, had 64.5 at first, but by the time I had stirred the dough balls out it sat nicely on 64, so "bag it & tag it" threw a blanket over it & walked away!!!
The only reall hassle was the overall time taken, but there are a few things I can trim up there, Took 5 3/4hrs from "mash in" to pitching.

I need to get my Kettle going a little harder (extra vents above burner) & some how get the straining system from Mash Tun to kettle going a little faster, that took over an hr & a half with sparging.
The chiller worked a treat, 1/2 hr to bring it down to 21C (it has always worked well as a shower water heater Too)

Now hapilly frothing away in the box with the S-23 in it.
Box/Temp mate working well, set at 11C at present & holding it nicely,

Cheers, Mick.

Good work Mick.
I have my first AG on right at the moment too finally after about 20 partials and 20 k&B.\
Congrats mate, and I hope you really enjoy the resulting beer.

Congrats Mick ,Bizier.
Look foward to hearing the results .Have also started to gather some gear for an all grain attempt
in the future.See what happens i feel like f@&*@n leming.

wrighty wrote:Have also started to gather some gear for an all grain attempt
in the future.See what happens i feel like f@&*@n leming.

By taking control of your brew process?
You are a maverick, not a lemming.

I'd doubt that I can make AG my staple (too much time required) but if this one turns out OK it might be worth persuing as a "once a month" type thing & do a kit or two in between as my primary/daily drinking stock.
It has got me keen to do a few more though,
Time is not an issue just at the moment, I got 4 weeks notice of redundancy yesterday & can work the 4 weeks or take a holiday at normal pay, no-body in thier right mind would stay there once youv'e been given marching orders (only a slight difference in tax rate apparently)

One thing I found though with the AG was that it still has a strong aroma of the hops, even now while fermenting, maybe it wasn't boiled hard enough?

It did actually boil, just not an agressive full rolling boil & I thought a single 60Min addition wasn't supposed to give much aroma or will this settle down?

Cheers, Mick.

With practice you can make an all grain beer pretty quickly. Last night I made an APA after the missus headed off to work.

Mashed in at 7:40pm - finished washing up and was having a coldie at 11:40pm...22L of bubbling 1.050 APA half an hour later!

Cheers,
TL

Above brew is looking pretty good, Racked it (there is another first) on day seven at sg 1010 & threw in a hand full of dextrose to get a Co2 layer happening again, it is now down to all but zero (1.002) only 3 days later!! yeh yeh!

& Can you believe it.........I was in Newcastle on Fri & called in at Marks Home brew & picked up another batch of grain the same as above.........This is not good.......

Mick.