I brewed today!

[Over The Cliff Brewing]

I brewed my first-ever self*-designed all-grain recipe, and of course things went off the rails a bit. Turns out I can't fit 8kg of grain into my 30l brew tank, so I mashed about 5.5kg of the grain I'd already cracked, then steeped the remaining 1.5kg in a pot on the stove. I managed to fit all the resulting liquid into the tank for the boil, so we'll see how things shake out. Ended up with a 1.072 OG in the end, which I am choosing to see as a pretty positive sign of things to come. Wish me luck.

* Ushered into being by you helpful folk, of course.

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Get a drill on that grain mill. Life will be easier for milling.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Get a drill on that grain mill. Life will be easier for milling.

My stupid butt does it by hand. Yeah get a drill on it. Be smarter than me. I usually need some water to drink after I mill haha.

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

I brewed my first-ever self*-designed all-grain recipe, and of course things went off the rails a bit. Turns out I can't fit 8kg of grain into my 30l brew tank, so I mashed about 5.5kg of the grain I'd already cracked, then steeped the remaining 1.5kg in a pot on the stove. I managed to fit all the resulting liquid into the tank for the boil, so we'll see how things shake out. Ended up with a 1.072 OG in the end, which I am choosing to see as a pretty positive sign of things to come. Wish me luck.

* Ushered into being by you helpful folk, of course.

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[Donoroto]

I brewed my first-ever self*-designed all-grain recipe, and of course things went off the rails a bit. Turns out I can't fit 8kg of grain into my 30l brew tank, so I mashed about 5.5kg of the grain I'd already cracked, then steeped the remaining 1.5kg in a pot on the stove. I managed to fit all the resulting liquid into the tank for the boil, so we'll see how things shake out. Ended up with a 1.072 OG in the end, which I am choosing to see as a pretty positive sign of things to come. Wish me luck.

* Ushered into being by you helpful folk, of course.

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Congratulations! But yeah, I can fit almost 13 pounds (6.5 kg) into my brewzilla 35, but not quite.

An alternative is to mash twice, half, then half again, then put both results in for the boil.

Or use extract to get the higher OG. A pound of DME raises the gravity by about 0.09 in 5 gallons.

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

Congratulations! But yeah, I can fit almost 13 pounds (6.5 kg) into my brewzilla 35, but not quite.

An alternative is to mash twice, half, then half again, then put both results in for the boil.

Or use extract to get the higher OG. A pound of DME raises the gravity by about 0.09 in 5 gallons.

@Donoroto, 0.09 seems like a lot, maybe you meant 0.009 instead?

 

[Donoroto]

@Donoroto, 0.09 seems like a lot, maybe you meant 0.009 instead?

ChatGPT said a pound of DME gives you 45 points (0.45) per gallon, so 5 gallons is just under 0.09. Maybe I’m hallucinating…. @Craigerrr uses DME, whaddaya say sir?

 

[Craigerrr]

ChatGPT said a pound of DME gives you 45 points (0.45) per gallon, so 5 gallons is just under 0.09. Maybe I’m hallucinating…. @Craigerrr uses DME, whaddaya say sir?

1 lb of DME gives you .009 in 5 gallons
If you are shooting for a 1060 wort, you can now roughly shoot for a 1051 wort and add your 1 lb of dme to get to 1060.
Having said that I have been thinking very seriously about pulling out my cooler mash tun, and my Anvil pump for mashing...