mash was 150 for 60 minutes.
4 oz black patent
6 oz chocolate
8 oz special roast
2 lbs victory
4 lbs 2 row pale
14 lbs marris otter
water was city ran through charcoal filter- used 5.2 ph stablizer
for a 10 gallon batch and trying to get to 12.5 gallons pre boil ( roughly) it takes me about 1.5 with temps hlt at 168 and over this time brings the mash up to 168. I also done this in quicker times say about 1 hours but those two batches did not ferment below 1.020. this last batch also did...
ok so after 2 weeks in primary measures 1.022 , tried rousing the yeast as well.
here is the odd thing I made 2 10 gallon batches one was this one and it took came up short on the OG at 1.022 as well. different yeast.
Only thing I did different in my process of 10 gallon batches with no...
recipe
10 gallon
1 lbs 8 oz black patent
2 lbs 8 oz chocolate
5 lbs 8 oz 2 row
5 lbs 8 oz 2 row smoked on my smoker
8 lbs munich
1.5 oz chinook at 60
1 oz willamette 30
mashed at 149 was shooting for 152 missed that
sparge 176 was shooting for 168
Lauter time was about 1...
mash was about 149 degrees I fly sparge and we were about 176 ( beersmith was calling for 168) but left lid off the cooler to cool it down. 3 tiered cooler sysetem. cooler for mash and hlt gravity feed down.
i had 2000 ml starter ( 8 oz malt dme to 2000 ml boiled 10 minute cooled to 75)...
I made a yeast starter with stir plate but stir bar keep coming off so not sure how much it helped. I did
2 packs of yeast. I was doing 2 batches and had 1056 as well. So 2 packs of both and I can't recall but I think the 1272 did not swell and the other one did but no sure. Date was July but...
Day 7 of a AG smoked porter, pitched temps were good, Og was 1.062 hoping for a 1.010 to 1.012 fg. air locks were very lite and one bucket did do much at all. I am at 1.024 right now. 10 gallon batch. Should I pitch 1/2 a pack to both buckets or a whole packet to each?
Thoughts?
Day 7 of a AG smoked porter, pitched temps were good, Og was 1.062 hoping for a 1.010 to 1.012 fg. air locks were very lite and one bucket did do much at all. I am at 1.024 right now. 10 gallon batch. Should I pitch 1/2 a pack to both buckets or a whole packet to each?
Thoughts?
Thanks for the input. This batch is not on the keg and I hate it.. Drinking it since I have 10 gallons but it was a problem child since the mash. The fusal Alchol has faded a little but I screwed up the mash temps too and it was around 143 so it is very heavy and does really have much taste...
Made a AG pale ale, mash temps were about 145 lower then wanted. OG 1.053 and checked to today at 1.010 so right were I want. on day 12 today i tasted and notice a bit of the high fusel alchols in there. Not much of the hop flavor i was looking for but that is another issue. I was brewing 2...
Ok made 10 gallon oatemeal stout last Tuesday og was 1.056.. split it to 2 5gallon caroboys.
1st carboy is going to be a bourbon oak oatmeal stout using oak chips soaked in Jack during the secondary. Did this one first and the fg was 1.020 beer smith says it should be 1.015 so about 5...
Prandlesc- i guess that was a "duh" monment for me. I checked the probe in a glass of tap water and my other 2 mercury and dial (alchol) both read 60 and the probe was 68. did not do the ice water or 150 due to time issues but based on this I figured my probe is off about 8-9 degrees so I...
I bought a 14.5 gallon conical fermenter (Blichmann) and have it my shed/office with a room temp of around 69. I added a thermowell to it and am measuring the temp with a ranco temp control probe to the inside. After the primary it took out some beer to measure the Gravity and it the temp was...
spent the day clean up today my self not sure why but this happens to me almost on every batch .. not the explosion yet but the big mess and I use a 6.5 carboy with blow tube 3/8 and air lock.