First All grain brewday

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First All grain brewday

Post by MarkF_2703 » Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:05 pm

Hi all,

Finally got to use the Grainfather and did a brew, a TT Clone kit, lots learnt. lots of water spilt all fingers and thumbs as expected, I was aiming for 23 litre in the fermenter but ended up with 20, I think I was 2 litres short on the sparge, but that would have put me at 29 litres for the boil, I think that is why I have a higher OG too at 1.052 instead of the predicted 1.044. I did however manage to get the wort at 19.4degrees in the fermenter from the chiller :D

But my biggest jolt was what looks like Protein in the wort, I was expecting a clear wort, but got this

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Is this the effect of a cold break in the chiller?

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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by Eric » Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:54 pm

Yes, that looks like break and should sink to the bottom. As can be seen, the wort is clear in between.

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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by MarkF_2703 » Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:09 pm

Thanks Eric, was a little concerned, so will it affect the beer? Will the yeast eventually consume it?

I had heard of cold and hot breaks before, but only done kits so far, more research I guess.

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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by Jim » Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:41 pm

Well done on your first all-grain brew. :)

As Eric says, cold break material won't affect your beer adversely. I've heard it might even help provide nutrients for the yeast (though 1. I don't know if it's true and 2. I doubt a good quality wort like that needs anything extra).
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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by Fil » Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:37 pm

I agree it will fall out as trub soon enough, you can then decide to rack off into a 2ndary fermentor off the trub if you like, but i wouldnt bother..

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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by MarkF_2703 » Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:13 pm

Thanks for the reassurance, it was a day of firsts, so I need to just practice a bit more, never rehydrated yeast which is what the Nottingham yeast asked for, boiled water into a small container to sterilise it, then let it cool to 33 (said 30-35 on the packet) didn't cover it or anything, for about 20 mins, maybe longer as I was having issues with the chiller :)

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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by gobuchul » Thu Nov 09, 2017 12:01 pm

My first few brew days there was water everywhere. It gets better.

It's amazing what you get away with and still get good beer.

As others have said, the break material won't be a problem and will settle out.

Remember people have brewed beer for hundreds of years, without even knowing what yeast was, no "proper" sanitation and without accurate temperature measurement.

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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by MarkF_2703 » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:25 pm

I keep telling myself that too, I am quite confident about the sanitised bit, wort to fermenter and the fermentation, that's familiar territory, although I still turned the kitchen into a wet room :) looking forward to being able to make a variety of beers rather than being limited to the kits.

It fascinates me about beer making in the past, of course we now know it was the boiling that made beer safer to drink than the local water, but even the storage of grain underground where the top layer rotted, but the CO2 formed a protective layer so the grain underneath was preserved, took many years to work that out.

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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by MarkF_2703 » Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:02 pm

Shouldn't have worried
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Tastes lovely

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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by BarnsleyBrewer » Sun Dec 03, 2017 12:20 am

Nice one, looks like a cracking pint....
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Re: First All grain brewday

Post by Dave S » Sun Dec 03, 2017 11:49 am

MarkF_2703 wrote:
Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:02 pm
Shouldn't have worried
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Tastes lovely
Yes, nice looking beer :beer:
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