After lot's of research and a request from a friend I finally decided to brew a lager and pressure ferment in Kegs.
I have a 65l and a 45l all in one brewer, normally I brew in the 65 and use 45 for sparging, however for this day rolls reversed.
The brew is a basic German pilsner at 4.2% similar to the one in the Crisp malts book and as my friend is not a hoppy person I slightly reduced and altered the hops.
So after basic water treatment, though my ph tester failed but I had some test strip's which aren't great but gave an indication that pH was somewhere close.
I find it's to messy to stir in grains as dust gets everywhere and other end of my garage I have my motorcycles, therefore I underlet, after breakfast and copious coffee I'll stir it all.
Then start the mash at 63°c for 60min
After the first mash I raised it to 70°c for 15min, mashed out at 75°c after which SG1.065
Sparging, unfortunately I couldn't read the water level on my 65l and had to guess on how much I was sparging and with no sight glass on the 45l couldn't see the level with grain basket sitting over it.
Not bad guess work, slightly more in the boil than what I intended, whirlpool for additions
After additions and boil, wort cooled down with counterflow chiller, another whirlpool and dropped out into Kegs
I'd intended to use safale us05 in one and 34/70 in other, but had a bit of a question moment and opted to just split 34/70 between the two
Hope post comes out ok, my first time posting for a brew day so be gentle
I have a 65l and a 45l all in one brewer, normally I brew in the 65 and use 45 for sparging, however for this day rolls reversed.
The brew is a basic German pilsner at 4.2% similar to the one in the Crisp malts book and as my friend is not a hoppy person I slightly reduced and altered the hops.
So after basic water treatment, though my ph tester failed but I had some test strip's which aren't great but gave an indication that pH was somewhere close.
I find it's to messy to stir in grains as dust gets everywhere and other end of my garage I have my motorcycles, therefore I underlet, after breakfast and copious coffee I'll stir it all.
Then start the mash at 63°c for 60min
After the first mash I raised it to 70°c for 15min, mashed out at 75°c after which SG1.065
Sparging, unfortunately I couldn't read the water level on my 65l and had to guess on how much I was sparging and with no sight glass on the 45l couldn't see the level with grain basket sitting over it.
Not bad guess work, slightly more in the boil than what I intended, whirlpool for additions
After additions and boil, wort cooled down with counterflow chiller, another whirlpool and dropped out into Kegs
I'd intended to use safale us05 in one and 34/70 in other, but had a bit of a question moment and opted to just split 34/70 between the two
Hope post comes out ok, my first time posting for a brew day so be gentle
