CPThomson
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Hi Folks!
Just wondering if some more tenured brewers could help me with a bit of feedback here. I attempted my first all-grain brew over the weekend (albeit quite clumsily) with the following ingredients:
BIAB method
1kg Pilsener Malt
500g Flaked Barley
1kg Flaked Oat (some of this was porridge oat, but reliable sources have told me this is fine)
25g Azacca
25g Simcoe
S-33 yeast
7 litre strike, 60 minute mash, over-sparged to about 13L (with an average sparge method at best).
Boil took forever on my electric hob (about 90 minutes to even approach 100 degrees), post boil volume about 9L, OG of 1.040. Quite a lot of bits from the grain that I could not filter out, went into the fermenter.
Pitched yeast and airlocked. Small activity over the first night, switched airlocks, went completely dead. My bucket contains no significant leaks in the seal. Attempted a gravity reading today, absolutely no signs of activity in the fermenter, funky yeast smell. 6-7 hours of my saturday poured down the bathtub sink.
Any suggestions as to why? Low volume? Wrong yeast? Over-diluted? Everything was Star-Sanned before anyone asks. But any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Taking another run this weekend, but look forward to hearing any feedback!
Cheers
Just wondering if some more tenured brewers could help me with a bit of feedback here. I attempted my first all-grain brew over the weekend (albeit quite clumsily) with the following ingredients:
BIAB method
1kg Pilsener Malt
500g Flaked Barley
1kg Flaked Oat (some of this was porridge oat, but reliable sources have told me this is fine)
25g Azacca
25g Simcoe
S-33 yeast
7 litre strike, 60 minute mash, over-sparged to about 13L (with an average sparge method at best).
Boil took forever on my electric hob (about 90 minutes to even approach 100 degrees), post boil volume about 9L, OG of 1.040. Quite a lot of bits from the grain that I could not filter out, went into the fermenter.
Pitched yeast and airlocked. Small activity over the first night, switched airlocks, went completely dead. My bucket contains no significant leaks in the seal. Attempted a gravity reading today, absolutely no signs of activity in the fermenter, funky yeast smell. 6-7 hours of my saturday poured down the bathtub sink.
Any suggestions as to why? Low volume? Wrong yeast? Over-diluted? Everything was Star-Sanned before anyone asks. But any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Taking another run this weekend, but look forward to hearing any feedback!
Cheers