Hi all
Just finished my first AG biab brew day!
Went mostly to plan, as unlike most things in my life I actually made a plan. Didn't wrorry too much about timings, just doing stuff in the right order. There were a few hiccups documented at the end.
Recipe (10L):
2kg Maris otter
100g caramalt
10g centennial @60
5g centennial @15
5g cascade @ 15
Bit of Irish moss @ 15
5g centennial @ FO
5g Cascade @ FO
6g SA-05 yeast
That was the plan anyway, ended up splitting it into two pots as my 12L wasn't ever going to boil.
Here's the report. Can't get phptos to work annoyingly, will only upload one (looks like I used iPad upside down to take them too!). Mods any idea why that is?
Like my flowery pot? Belongs to mother in law.
Prep:
Weighed it all out, labelled hop additions so I wouldnt forget what was what later.
Mash: easy enough. 6L water. I didn't bother treating water at all.Faffed about with kettle to get water to 75ish.
Left for an hour under a duvet, it didn't lose any heat!
Drained into an fv. Fortunately an old pizza cooking tray (with loads of holes in) fitted the fv perfectly so I was able to plop the bag on that and squeeze all the wort out.
Sorta sparge:
Then did a bit of a dunk sparge as per clibits AG how to, 80c. Drained into same fv with pizza tray set up.
Boil:
First cock up. Put two pans on cooker to heat up so I didn't lose heat to the cold pan metal. Forgot the one had had the wort in, burnt the residual wort onto the bottom of pan. Big black stain on pot. Mother in law will not be happy, need to get metal scourer before returning pan.
Anyway, scrubbed most of it off, hopefully won't taste it in brew.
Because I had two pans on the go, they boiled at different times, so I had to plan out the timing for hops for each pan separately.
Anyway, got all that done, not sure I got a good hot break, so loads of gunge still in pans.
Cooling:
Cooled pans in the bath, returned to new sterilised fv. Ended up with about 7L so topped up to 10L with cold water.
Take OG and pitch:
Gravity was 1052, if I get 75% attenuation I should get. 5.2% beer. taking gravity was a faff too as I hadnt factored in the fact that the wort wasn't deep enough for hydrometer and I don't have a sample jar. Anyway tipped it up til hydro was bobbing and got reading.
Gave it a good stir to aerate, a bit of yeast nutrient and the sa-05 went in.
Now waiting for lift off!
V satisfying morning, surprisingly easy. A lot of trub already in fv, hope I don't lose too much beer to it.
Will report back in due course!
Someone will probably remind me of something Critical I forgot to do, but hey, you live and learn.
Big ups to Clibit for the inspiration and of course everyone else who I've learned from on here...I'll raise a glass a bit later to the first of many AG brews!
Over and out.
Just finished my first AG biab brew day!
Went mostly to plan, as unlike most things in my life I actually made a plan. Didn't wrorry too much about timings, just doing stuff in the right order. There were a few hiccups documented at the end.
Recipe (10L):
2kg Maris otter
100g caramalt
10g centennial @60
5g centennial @15
5g cascade @ 15
Bit of Irish moss @ 15
5g centennial @ FO
5g Cascade @ FO
6g SA-05 yeast
That was the plan anyway, ended up splitting it into two pots as my 12L wasn't ever going to boil.
Here's the report. Can't get phptos to work annoyingly, will only upload one (looks like I used iPad upside down to take them too!). Mods any idea why that is?
Like my flowery pot? Belongs to mother in law.
Prep:
Weighed it all out, labelled hop additions so I wouldnt forget what was what later.
Mash: easy enough. 6L water. I didn't bother treating water at all.Faffed about with kettle to get water to 75ish.
Left for an hour under a duvet, it didn't lose any heat!
Drained into an fv. Fortunately an old pizza cooking tray (with loads of holes in) fitted the fv perfectly so I was able to plop the bag on that and squeeze all the wort out.
Sorta sparge:
Then did a bit of a dunk sparge as per clibits AG how to, 80c. Drained into same fv with pizza tray set up.
Boil:
First cock up. Put two pans on cooker to heat up so I didn't lose heat to the cold pan metal. Forgot the one had had the wort in, burnt the residual wort onto the bottom of pan. Big black stain on pot. Mother in law will not be happy, need to get metal scourer before returning pan.
Anyway, scrubbed most of it off, hopefully won't taste it in brew.
Because I had two pans on the go, they boiled at different times, so I had to plan out the timing for hops for each pan separately.
Anyway, got all that done, not sure I got a good hot break, so loads of gunge still in pans.
Cooling:
Cooled pans in the bath, returned to new sterilised fv. Ended up with about 7L so topped up to 10L with cold water.
Take OG and pitch:
Gravity was 1052, if I get 75% attenuation I should get. 5.2% beer. taking gravity was a faff too as I hadnt factored in the fact that the wort wasn't deep enough for hydrometer and I don't have a sample jar. Anyway tipped it up til hydro was bobbing and got reading.
Gave it a good stir to aerate, a bit of yeast nutrient and the sa-05 went in.
Now waiting for lift off!
V satisfying morning, surprisingly easy. A lot of trub already in fv, hope I don't lose too much beer to it.
Will report back in due course!
Someone will probably remind me of something Critical I forgot to do, but hey, you live and learn.
Big ups to Clibit for the inspiration and of course everyone else who I've learned from on here...I'll raise a glass a bit later to the first of many AG brews!
Over and out.
