I'm tempted to follow in Reg and Daab's footsteps and try a minimash using up some leftovers. The quantities I have remaining however mean I am limited to more of a micro mash but I'm keen to have a go anyway.
I'm keen to go for a bit more hoppy this time, specifically more aroma. What do you think of this as a micro mash recipe:
248g Pale Malt
50g Flaked Corn
40g Crystal Malt (80SRM)
4g Golding EK Bittering (Boil for 90 mins)
8g Golding EK Flavour (Boil for 15 mins)
8g Golding EK Aroma (Steep for 30 mins)
2g Irish Moss (Boil for 15 mins)
OG Est 1045
FG Est 1015
Colour Est 10.3 SRM
Bitterness Est 68.1 IBU
Mash in 1 litre for 90 mins at 66C
Sparge 1.3 litre
Boil 90 mins total
I have my Wadworth 6X fermenting away so I have a good source of fresh yeast.
I have a mash grain bag (that I used to use with my boiler) so I can use that. I can't decide whether to try and use my coolbox mash tun and hope it works with such a small brew length or else try and use DaaB's "in the oven" method. Any suggestions??
Micro Mash
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eskimobob
Good point, I had not really given much thought to how I would carry out the sparging - I'd have to hold the grain bag out of the wort and then sparge - tricky. I don't have any spare fermenter buckets to make the lauter tun that you use (and don't want the hassle of going to buy a couple) so perhaps I should use my mash tun after all. I have a feeling with such a small mash it will be hard to maintain the mash temp but if I cover it in lots of stuff that might help.DaaB wrote:I found using a 5L bucket in bucket mash tun so much easier than the grain bag, when I did use the grain bag I supported it in a 5L fermenter as a lauter device although i'm sure there's no reason not to support it in 25L fermenter while sparging.
Great idea, like itDaaB wrote:One change I did make was to place a stainless steel scrubby in the funnel (instead of a colander) to filter out the hops, it was much better.
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Well, Micro mash completed on Friday after my boradband connection died (well I couldn't do any work could I 
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I thought about using my coolbox mash tun but decided to use a cast iron baking pot instead. Once I had mashed, I poured the mash into my mash bag fitted to my mash tun and used this to filter the grist while I batch sparged with two 0.6 litre quantities.
On to the stove and boiled for 60 minutes. I had to reduce the boil time because I had forgotten that I was off out on Friday and needed to ensure I had got everything finished in time.
I cooled the cast iron pot in the sink and then used the mash bag again fitted over a funnel to filter out the hops. Once coole enough I skimmed some of the yeast head from my Wadworth brew and dropped that into the PET bottle.
Fermenting stared quite quickly. My efficiency was much lower than normal but I think the sparging was poor. I also have about 10mm or trub in the bottom of the fermenter so filtering was pretty useless.
Will be interesting to see how it turns out.
).I thought about using my coolbox mash tun but decided to use a cast iron baking pot instead. Once I had mashed, I poured the mash into my mash bag fitted to my mash tun and used this to filter the grist while I batch sparged with two 0.6 litre quantities.
On to the stove and boiled for 60 minutes. I had to reduce the boil time because I had forgotten that I was off out on Friday and needed to ensure I had got everything finished in time.
I cooled the cast iron pot in the sink and then used the mash bag again fitted over a funnel to filter out the hops. Once coole enough I skimmed some of the yeast head from my Wadworth brew and dropped that into the PET bottle.
Fermenting stared quite quickly. My efficiency was much lower than normal but I think the sparging was poor. I also have about 10mm or trub in the bottom of the fermenter so filtering was pretty useless.
Will be interesting to see how it turns out.
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eskimobob
