Putting together first recipes...

[Loetz]

I can head the water in the mash tun, so it shouldn't be a big issue. I guess I'll start with 66C then.

One hour for sparging? Really? I thought it would release tannins if I exposed the grains to those temps for that long.

 

[pittsy]

yeah what he said (Easy Peasie)

 

[pittsy]

your amounts of sparge water should be nice and slow allowing all sugars to be drained through , you should stop when hydrometer is around 1008 or before if you have enough wort (keep testing sparge drain off water through out sparge) remember to correct reading for temp difference , tannings won't be there until you go below 1008

 

[Easy Peasie]

Oh and I would dry hop about 20g of the ns in secondary. I did and just had a couple of sneaky ones and it,s beautiful :party:

 

[Loetz]

Cool! Thanks for all of your help on this. I hope I can do it on Sunday....

Should I stir the grain with the sparge water once or twice if I'm going to be doing batch sparging?

And if I'm using oats from the grocery store, do I need to cook them before I put them in the mash?

 

[pittsy]

not needed if fly sparging (water raining on grain) as the water with drain away all sugars (most) but if you was batch sparging (thats filling it once at 66c waiting for 60/90 mins then draining till empty then filling a second time waiting 20 mins then draining till empty) then giving it a stir up is good but i think your fly sparging :

 

[Loetz]

Ok, so I'm about to crush the grain and I will do the mash tomorrow!

I really want to do the batch sparge because this is my first brew and I'd rather keep it simple.

Considering that I'm going to add all of the sparge water at once, what do you think I should heat it to if I want to sparge at 75?

How much do you think I should I add for the 90 min sparge and how much for the 20 min?

 

[pittsy]

at 75c is stops sugars being released first mash at 66c for between 60 /90 mins 90 better (between 62c and 68c)then drain then when ready for second mash (i do this too at mo ) get temp to be around 75c for around 20 min mash then drain job done . remember though that temp of water for mash needs to be higher because when put into mash tun with grains it will lose around 5 to 10c (also swill mash tun with hot water before first to help ) using this helps http://www.brewblogger.net/index.php?pa ... ion=strike

 

[Loetz]

Oh ok. I was thinking that a 90 min sparge and then a 20 min sparge didnt sound right. This clears things up.

So should I heat the sparge water to 80 in the HLT if I want it to be 75 when it gets into the mash tun with the grains?

 

[pittsy]

yes between 80 and 89c it all depends on your set up , dont worru too much its a little bit of guess work the first few times , take notes and adjust for next time , im sure it'll work out fine , however if your using calc set it at around 65% efficiency not the standard 75% so you will get the right amount of grains to reach your og :

 

[Loetz]

Oh and I would dry hop about 20g of the ns in secondary. I did and just had a couple of sneaky ones and it,s beautiful :party:

I would do this, but I don't have enough hops. I have just enough to do another batch, and then dry hop the second batch with about 10g.
I'll try this next month.