Brewing Log 9

Starter

• 1L with 3.6 oz DME
• 3 feb: put on stir plate
• heated in flask on stove

Mash

• First brew with cooler mash tun.
• Cherry smoked malt instead of Rauch.
• Estimating; .75 gal mash tun loss.
  • 13 lb grain
  • 4.06 gal strike at 168°
  • 5.12 gal sparge
  • pre boil volume 6.75
  • Calculated at brew365.com/mash_sparge_water_calculator.php
• Mash at 154° target.
• Mash in at 149°
• Added boiling water to reach 152°
• Must need a higher margin for this cooler, or help to add grain aster.
• Its hard to heat water in the wind. Might need a wind screen.
• trouble with vorlaugh on sparge. Possible grist.
• Collected just under 7 gal, quite a bit of mush left.
• Preboil grav: 1.045 (effic: 67%)

Boil

• 60 min boil
• Using whirlfloc at 115min
• Recipe says hops at 4%, but mie are 2.5%. Using same amounts though.
• Boiled hard and actually dropped 1 gal.
• Final volume 5.5 gal

Ferment

• Chilled to 90°. Will pitch yeast after cool.
• About 4 gallons in fermenter. Still need to work on grain particles. Should vorlauf slower and more.
• Put back in cooler very gently, as it is wide and has a thin grain bed.
• Pitched yeast in evening.
• OG unknown. Hydrometer fell and shattered before reading. Hard to read the next day after ferment has started. Maybe 60?
• temperature target 64°
• 9 feb: bump to 69°
• 11 feb: move to fridtge to crash
• FG 1.010
• if est OG is 1.053, abv 5.6%
• 12 feb: Adding 1/2 tsp gelatin in 1/3 C wter. Warmed water first. Added to carboy warm, then swirled carboy.
• 13 feb: kegged. About 4 gallons. Not burst carbing due to large headspace.