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LOOONG day
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First off got out first strike temp pretty spot on and missed our mash target by half a degree at 65.5. Lost a degree over an hour but didn't pre heat the mash tun as I should of
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Got a sort of stuck sparge in the first runnings now known due to too quick a flow and the fact the braid found its way up not lying flat on the bottom. Got 4L short of our first mash out target.
Second sparge temp was a bit low at 73 due to us carrying our HLT between rooms and got the amount of wort same out as what we put in. Needed to do a small 4L third sparge to get our final target volume of 29L. When in the fermenter and mixed we got a temp adjusted pre boil gravity of 1040. Not sure what that makes our efficiency though. Should be pretty good.
Doing a split boil of 15L's at a time with half the hop additions in each and I have a 1L starter coming to room temp to pitch when this second batch is cool and in the fermenter. The evaporation is pretty spot on to what we expect for the 90 min boil. All smells great so far. Looks like beer, smells like beer, should make beer LOL
Things we learnt today.
We NEED an urn to do full boils and eliminate the need to carry sparge water and lose temp.
Need to silicone the end of the braid.
Should replace some vinyl tubing with something more temp appropriate.
AG takes a lot of time
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Thanks to Dr S, Warra, Trough and all those that helped.
Questions..
Why boil for 90 mins instead of 60 and does the grain bill need to be adjusted if a 60 min boil is done. Obviously less evaporation occurs.