Hey guys,
Just starting out with brewing (I’ve done around 10 all grain batches in the past but trying to get back into it now and you’ll see the mistakes that I've made with this one as you read) - I decided to make my own Black IPA recipe (bold I know with having quite a long time out, but I like a challenge
) I put it together using the BrewFather app, so I could get the ABV%, colour and bitterness within the ranges for that style.
My current kit is a GrainFather (old model - 30L), GrainFather Conical Fermenter and a sparge water heater. The recipe (as you see below) was completely over-exaggerated by myself and looking back I should have done more research into quantities before I went gung-ho and just carried on. Here is the initial recipe;
The main thing I over-looked was the amount of Mash water it needed, 27.5 litres. And in my 30L boiler - I only noticed my mistake when I has already put the 3.5kg of Maris Otter in the boiler. Anyway I carried on and dropped the amounts down to this new altered recipe.
So now I’ve panicked abit and completely forgot to put my false bottom on top of the grain and recirculate the mash.
Boiled it for 60 mins with 75g of Chinook, adding a protofloc tablet 15 mins from the end.
I cooled using the counter-flow chiller to around 23c and transferred to my fermenter. Straight away I noticed the wort was very heavy and gritty, I have a hang-on-the-side hop strainer to help prevent the hops clogging up the filter, so I ran the wort through that, and I found myself having to empty the strainer 2-3 times because it was getting clogged with the stuff in the wort.
My first thought was this was because of my mash being very poor, and not recirculated through…I’d like to know if I’m wrong on that please guys.
Also now it’s in the fermenter - I made another huge error, I used WhiteLabs 001 yeast, i pitched at 21c, and forgot to clamp the lid down, 24hrs later I walked into the garage and didn’t hear the airlock bubbling so I was all but ready to drain poor the lot and realised i could smell the fermentation. Realised my mistake and clamped the lid, 20 seconds later the airlock is going like a train.
Question; because it wasn’t airtight completely is this batch ruined due to being exposed to air?
Final thing; despite trying to catch and filter out all of the fine pulp/grit (don’t know what to call it) I’ve taken a sample and couldn’t get an accurate SG, because of the thickness of the wort.
Question(s);
1)Will this settle itself out and drop down to the bottom so I can draw off some clear beer?
And 2) If it probably won’t because I’ve monumentally screwed this up, is there anything I can do to get it to drop?
(I don’t have access to cold crash equipment like a beer fridge or anything like that)
Just starting out with brewing (I’ve done around 10 all grain batches in the past but trying to get back into it now and you’ll see the mistakes that I've made with this one as you read) - I decided to make my own Black IPA recipe (bold I know with having quite a long time out, but I like a challenge
) I put it together using the BrewFather app, so I could get the ABV%, colour and bitterness within the ranges for that style.My current kit is a GrainFather (old model - 30L), GrainFather Conical Fermenter and a sparge water heater. The recipe (as you see below) was completely over-exaggerated by myself and looking back I should have done more research into quantities before I went gung-ho and just carried on. Here is the initial recipe;
The main thing I over-looked was the amount of Mash water it needed, 27.5 litres. And in my 30L boiler - I only noticed my mistake when I has already put the 3.5kg of Maris Otter in the boiler. Anyway I carried on and dropped the amounts down to this new altered recipe.
So now I’ve panicked abit and completely forgot to put my false bottom on top of the grain and recirculate the mash.
Boiled it for 60 mins with 75g of Chinook, adding a protofloc tablet 15 mins from the end.
I cooled using the counter-flow chiller to around 23c and transferred to my fermenter. Straight away I noticed the wort was very heavy and gritty, I have a hang-on-the-side hop strainer to help prevent the hops clogging up the filter, so I ran the wort through that, and I found myself having to empty the strainer 2-3 times because it was getting clogged with the stuff in the wort.
My first thought was this was because of my mash being very poor, and not recirculated through…I’d like to know if I’m wrong on that please guys.
Also now it’s in the fermenter - I made another huge error, I used WhiteLabs 001 yeast, i pitched at 21c, and forgot to clamp the lid down, 24hrs later I walked into the garage and didn’t hear the airlock bubbling so I was all but ready to drain poor the lot and realised i could smell the fermentation. Realised my mistake and clamped the lid, 20 seconds later the airlock is going like a train.
Question; because it wasn’t airtight completely is this batch ruined due to being exposed to air?
Final thing; despite trying to catch and filter out all of the fine pulp/grit (don’t know what to call it) I’ve taken a sample and couldn’t get an accurate SG, because of the thickness of the wort.
Question(s);
1)Will this settle itself out and drop down to the bottom so I can draw off some clear beer?
And 2) If it probably won’t because I’ve monumentally screwed this up, is there anything I can do to get it to drop?
(I don’t have access to cold crash equipment like a beer fridge or anything like that)
d’oh!
