Well planned to do my first all grain brew last sunday, here's how it went.
Aiming for a 19 liter brew so popped 8.5 liters in the boiler for the mash while I weighed out the grain and hops.
Boiler on..
Ingredients (picked these up on Saturday from Andy at ColchesterHomeBrew, thanks for putting them aside for me)
Pale Malt
White Sugar
Crystal Malt
Black Malt
Target Hops (Start of boil)
Styrian Hops (post-boil)
(Delia would be proud
)All OK so far, Water at 80c (well was too hot and had to let it cool) and added to mash tun, left for a
couple of minutes to warm, then grain added.
Stirred mash temp now 66c, so lid on, covered with a towel and left for 90 mins.
Put remaining 18.2 liters into boiler and bring it up to 80c (over shot again slightly so had to let it cool a bit)
now time to start the sparging, here's how it looked half way through
Sparged till it dropped below 1008 (ended up with about 25 liters), added hop strainer to boiler, poured wort in
and started the boil, here's a pic of the scum just before it fell back in to the rolling boil
and here it is boiling away with the Targer hops now added
and now one about 75 mins later when I added the protofloc
boiled for the last 15mins, let it cool to 80c then stirred in the Styrian hops and left it for
10mins. Connected up the counter flow chiller, ran wort though chiller to fv (and a sieve to catch anything
that escaped the hop strainer and for aeration) came out a bit warm to start with (30c) but then fiddled with water
and wort flow rates and got it down to 18c when made up for the initial 30c. ended up with a fv containing just
under 19 liters of wort at 21, heres a pic of some in the trials jar with a gravity of 1044 (had aimed for 1046)
so a tad low but will do for first go.
Could have got more out but was worried about getting too much trud into fv.
Sprinkled on a packet of Safale-04, and it's now bubbling away to itself.
Well just got to wait a few weeks now to see if I've succeeded... fingers crossed.
End time was about 7pm, hmmm longer than I thought but was good.
(to brewing, not alcohol)
!!)