Brewing Log 10

This was submitted in the homebrew competition.

Starter

• 1.5L with 5.3oz DME, stirring feb 19
• Need to keep bertter watch for boil overs!
• Lost about 1/2L to boilovers, adding 1/2 L with 4.2oz LME.

Mash

• 4 gallons strike at 172. target 158
• sparge with 5.3 gal
• hit 158° (third try, had issues with cooler leaking, fortunately, before adding grain.)(using 2 hose washers, instead of o-ring)
• Vorlauf slower seems to work well enough.
• raining took about an hour, but was worth it, it seems clear. Also, pre-boil gravity: 1.048, which seems good, although not states per recipe. pre-boil volume 7 gal.
• Mass efficiency calculated at 75%

Boil

• whirlfloc @ 15
• end volume: 6.2 gal
• get a spare propane though

Ferment

• Steel scrubber worked well for transfereing
• 5 1/4 gal in fermenter
• OG 1.054
• 26 feb: 1.020
• 1 mar looking close. Krausen fell.
• 3 mar: 1.012 FG 5.5%
• 4 mar: gelatin, morning. night: moved 5 gal to keg. set to burst 40 psi for 12 hr.
• 6 mar: pretty good. should stabilize a bit more
• used counterpressure filler to fill bottles for NHC.