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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Congratulations! You just earned you Brew Day FUBAR Merit Badge.

 

[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 0.009 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...

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

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?

I see the problem: 45 points would be 0.045 not 0.45.

 

[Donoroto]

I see the problem: 45 points would be 0.045 not 0.45.

0.045 is indeed 45 points. My error.

 

[Dave Y]

Congratulations! You just earned you Brew Day FUBAR Merit Badge.

We need to design a brew day FUBAR morale patch.

 

[TerryDowning]

Brewing 2 batches today.

Community Dunkel American Style
LOTR Brown Ale
Pics from the Dunkel

That Decoction smelled so good!

decoction and recirc on the mash

My setup for today

and a 90 minute boil
This one is chilled and in the fermentor

LOTR Brown is finishing the mash and getting ready to boil

 

[TerryDowning]

Draining the mas on my second brew preparing to boil

 

[Megary]

Getting ready to mash a “Buckwheat” APA. The black grains are the ground buckwheat. They do not add any color.

 

[vinobrew]

@Megary In looking at your grain bill, there is Dutch on the 2nd line. I'm not familiar with that term, is that a specific grain? I couldn't tell by the crushed grist what it was. Excellent record keeping by the way..

 

[Megary]

@Megary In looking at your grain bill, there is Dutch on the 2nd line. I'm not familiar with that term, is that a specific grain? I couldn't tell by the crushed grist what it was. Excellent record keeping by the way..

Yes…a specific name. “Dutch” is a 10L Munich style malt from Deer Creek Malthouse. The first 3 on the list are DC malts. I love their stuff.
And thank you! Cheers.

 

[Zambi]

Dutch is Munich ???
Quite baffling to a NW European

 

[Megary]

Deer Creek is a maltster from Pennsylvania and I would guess that their “Dutch” Munich malt is paying tribute to the group of people with German ancestry known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, the Amish and Mennonites. Where in history Dutch got bastardized from Deutsch, I cannot say.

 

[Sandy Feet]

It is wonderful brewing when it is only in the upper 60s at sunrise and not a million percent humidity.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Brewing a Helles today before the zoom.

 

[west1m]

Brewing some "Lite Stuff" before the zoom.