Porter (was advised to start with something easy)
20 liters
8 lbs british pale
12 oz crystal 60
12 oz chocolate malt
2 oz roast barley
1 oz Challenger 60 min
1 oz US Goldings
S-04 yeast
heat up mash tun (Igloo 5 gallon) with a gallon of boiling water, hold for 10 mins and dumped
added 3 gallons at 168F-stirred the water until it dropped to 164F, added the grains, stirring continously until temp is at 155F put lid on leave for 1 hour
my sparge pot is 5 gallons-filled with 170F added 1 gallon to tun opened valve for first runnings, took about 4 liters(recirculated), than continued to add 170F water to tun until I thought the boiler pot was full (first mistake, I filled to the handles and my final volumn is 17 liters,I continued to drain the tun and sure enough the extra would of put me where I wanted to be, live and learn)
I took a reading and got 1038 (not sure what this meant, read it somewhere)
proceeded to bring to boil, added hops, had a few beers
finally I get to use the Shirron plate chiller.
connected everything up (I boiled the chiller and cooled in a star-san solution to be sure) started the hose, opened the boiler spigot and 10 minutes later I had 17 liters of 76F great smelling,looking wort ready to aeriate.Shook the hell out of the fermenter, pitched S-04 moved to 65F chiller unit.
Paul
