mash on SmAsH apollo IPA

[alfie09]

Started at 10 this morning making a single malt single hop beer never done this before!. all goin well so far brewday 16 and i have never ever forgot to put my hop strainer in and no brewday as gone drastically wrong maybe today will be my day

[alfie09]

weird used the right amount of water and ended up with 5 litres of wort @ 1.0138 after temp correction am i right in thinking i could of still sparged this a bit more to make a mini batch in a pan?

[WishboneBrewery]

What volume were you aiming for?

[bellebouche]

On my experience...

1) depends on how hot your sparge water was
2) you could be at the very end of the usable extractable sugars... and perhaps risking taking the tannins out of the husks.
3) 5 litres of a very low gravity wort is going to make a miserable beer - so you'd need to add some extra fermentables. DME, Sugar or Candi

In that circumstance - I'd bottle it off into 5x1L glass bottles (I use old cleaned orange juice bottles) and make 5x lots of a starter wort for growing on yeast cultures. The sugars will feed the yeast for a starter and you can chuck out the remaining 'beer' after you've grown on the start culture a few times.

[alfie09]

was aiming for 19litres just topped up during the boil for 23litres and i still ended up with 1052 wort! tidy biscuits. why did my effiency go higher today than usual i usually hit 75% must of been well over that today1

[WishboneBrewery]

what are "Tidy Biscuits" ???

[alfie09]

put this into the shed on friday and i tried a few pints and already its the best one i have made it tastes so nice already i had about 10 pints so far and it is the best tasting beer i have ever had at this stage 2 days into cold conditioing and its already clear as a bell!

[leedsbrew]

what are "Tidy Biscuits" ???

I think they are similar to "cool beans"

[WishboneBrewery]

ahh Just kept in a different tin