ArcticBear
Well-Known Member
Last night I undertook a small endeavor...
I formulated my own recipe for the first time, picked up my grains from the homebrew shop and within the scope of 4.5 hours, I:
-Heated my mash water
-Doughed in
-Hit my mash temp dead nuts
-Made a 1.6L starter for my current brew (didnt have time to do it before)
-Chilled starter, pitched yeasties onto stir plate
-Cooked 4 Jalapeno bubba burgers for the girl and I
-Heated my sparge water to temp
-Mashed out
-Batch sparged, again hit my sparge temp dead nuts
-Ate Dinner, -burgers and salad
-Drained all into the kettle
-hit preboil gravity spot on (volume was a little high though, but that's ok)
-Began the boil
-Added all my additions while cleaning my mash tun
-Cooled with my immersion chiller
-Drained kettle into fermenter
-let fermenter sit over night until starter was ready this morning
-Washed the brew kettle and put everything away
-drank 7+ beers during this entire time while racing around between the garage, the kitchen, the deck where the grille is located!
the girlfriend wanted to assist but i was moving at such a high speed i knew what i needed to do but couldnt take an extra minute to stop and use words to say what i needed to do! hahah
my shortest all grain brew day to date, all successful except being low on OG, partly in due to the excess volume mashed out, don't really care about abv so this isn't as critical because its a new recipe and i have nothing to compare it to.
I'm finding as the more i brew the more efficient i am becoming at managing time. I dont really like rushing around at 100 miles an hour, although it is fun. I'm just exhausted this morning haha
now we play the waiting game for the beer to ferment while i'm on vacation, then its to the dry hopping and kegging!
I formulated my own recipe for the first time, picked up my grains from the homebrew shop and within the scope of 4.5 hours, I:
-Heated my mash water
-Doughed in
-Hit my mash temp dead nuts
-Made a 1.6L starter for my current brew (didnt have time to do it before)
-Chilled starter, pitched yeasties onto stir plate
-Cooked 4 Jalapeno bubba burgers for the girl and I
-Heated my sparge water to temp
-Mashed out
-Batch sparged, again hit my sparge temp dead nuts
-Ate Dinner, -burgers and salad
-Drained all into the kettle
-hit preboil gravity spot on (volume was a little high though, but that's ok)
-Began the boil
-Added all my additions while cleaning my mash tun
-Cooled with my immersion chiller
-Drained kettle into fermenter
-let fermenter sit over night until starter was ready this morning
-Washed the brew kettle and put everything away
-drank 7+ beers during this entire time while racing around between the garage, the kitchen, the deck where the grille is located!
the girlfriend wanted to assist but i was moving at such a high speed i knew what i needed to do but couldnt take an extra minute to stop and use words to say what i needed to do! hahah
my shortest all grain brew day to date, all successful except being low on OG, partly in due to the excess volume mashed out, don't really care about abv so this isn't as critical because its a new recipe and i have nothing to compare it to.
I'm finding as the more i brew the more efficient i am becoming at managing time. I dont really like rushing around at 100 miles an hour, although it is fun. I'm just exhausted this morning haha
now we play the waiting game for the beer to ferment while i'm on vacation, then its to the dry hopping and kegging!
