Okay, so I brewed my first batch of AG yesterday, and I'm not sure how it's going to turn out as I had a pretty pieced together method... here goes...
I brought 2 pots of water to a boil and turned the heat down to just under a boil. In the larger pot I added my 2-row briess pale (9.5#) into about 3gal water and 2.5# of chocolate/crystal/black patent into about 1gal water. Brought them both close to a boil, shut off the heat and put on thr lids. Let them sit there for 15min then dumped into a cleaned, sanitized cooler and shut the lid while I boiled another 4gal of water.
Once water was at boiling, I shut off the heat and waited for the boil to stop and then added the water to the cooler. I let this all sit for 30 minutes and then started straining the contents into a bucket. Once done, (with a giant mess everywhere) I had about 4.5 gallons of really dark liquid.
I took 3.5gal and started my boil while I quickly cooled the rest with ice. Added hops (1oz centennial for 60 and 1oz northern brewer for 30). Cooled it in a water/ice bath and added to fermentation bucket, added cooled leftover gallon, added cold water to the 5.5gal mark, pitched s-04 (rehydrated), closed it up and now its in my downstairs shower. It has activity, and hasn't come through the airlock (yet).
This is my 5th brew overall. Any thoughts on what I may have problems with? Haha. I know this is kinda long... everything was sanitized... the cooler, both buckets, strainer, spoons, pitcher, everything.
I brought 2 pots of water to a boil and turned the heat down to just under a boil. In the larger pot I added my 2-row briess pale (9.5#) into about 3gal water and 2.5# of chocolate/crystal/black patent into about 1gal water. Brought them both close to a boil, shut off the heat and put on thr lids. Let them sit there for 15min then dumped into a cleaned, sanitized cooler and shut the lid while I boiled another 4gal of water.
Once water was at boiling, I shut off the heat and waited for the boil to stop and then added the water to the cooler. I let this all sit for 30 minutes and then started straining the contents into a bucket. Once done, (with a giant mess everywhere) I had about 4.5 gallons of really dark liquid.
I took 3.5gal and started my boil while I quickly cooled the rest with ice. Added hops (1oz centennial for 60 and 1oz northern brewer for 30). Cooled it in a water/ice bath and added to fermentation bucket, added cooled leftover gallon, added cold water to the 5.5gal mark, pitched s-04 (rehydrated), closed it up and now its in my downstairs shower. It has activity, and hasn't come through the airlock (yet).
This is my 5th brew overall. Any thoughts on what I may have problems with? Haha. I know this is kinda long... everything was sanitized... the cooler, both buckets, strainer, spoons, pitcher, everything.