Easy Peasie
Regular.
Have you got a photo of your mash tun and false bottom. there should be not be a problem with not being able to submerge the grains and having to add additional water.
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puravida said:
In then end, I used this:
Pils - 11.11 pounds
CaraHell - 1.6 pounds
CaraBelge - 1.6 pounds
Oats - 1.6 pounds
Boil for 90 mins
.5oz Nelson Sauvin 60 min.
.7oz Nelson Sauvin 20 min.
.7oz Nelson Sauvin 10 min.
.7oz Nelson Sauvin 5 min.
I probably should have bumped up the later additions even more and done a 0 min addition because the hops added more bitterness than flavor and smell. I mean they still added flavor and smell just not as much as I'd hoped they would.
I tried to mash for 90 mins at 66 and then sparge for 20 at 75.
I can't stand by this recipe as it is more or less just made up and it's my first time brewing.
Loetz
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Easy Peasie said:
I don't have a photo of the false bottom outside of the mash tun, but here it is in the tun...
I can't remember if that is before or after I added the extra 9L of water. I think it was before.
It has a lot of dead space under it. I think like 8L of dead space. It's quite a bit.
Easy Peasie
Regular.
That is alot of deadspace, although I have a coolbox mashtun and a copper manifold I am sure you could build it different. I am sure some brewers have the FALSE bottom lower than the ball valve and use copper tubing through a hole in the FALSE bottom. Does anyone do this?
Loetz
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Bad Beer Update:
I just racked to secondary.
My gravity reading is 1.032... I think. I got a brix reading of 8.5 and I get a brix of 2 with still water.
The OG reading had given a brix of 15.
This is the inside of the primary during the racking. Do you notice anything strange about that stuff floating on top?
And here is a photo of some in the glass.
The taste is pretty light with a lot of bitterness.
Any thoughts on this?
I just racked to secondary.
My gravity reading is 1.032... I think. I got a brix reading of 8.5 and I get a brix of 2 with still water.
The OG reading had given a brix of 15.
This is the inside of the primary during the racking. Do you notice anything strange about that stuff floating on top?
And here is a photo of some in the glass.
The taste is pretty light with a lot of bitterness.
Any thoughts on this?
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