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first all grain
I did my first all grain batch today. I did the Copper Ale kit from Midwest. I think everything went fairly good, although I missed my o.g. 1.044 when it should have been about 1.052-56. But for a first try, pretty well. I wanted to hit 152 for my mash, but added a bit too much cool water and ended up with about 150. Lost a only a couple degrees over a 1 hour mash. Then I batch sparged, and boiled for an hour, used the new wort chiller and tossed it in the carboy. The kit usually comes with either munton's dry yeast or wyeast german ale 1007 or white labs german ale 029, but I got it with Us-05. Hoping this beer turns out good. I'm fermenting it at 60 deg, or that's the temp in the fridge, so it'll probably be closer to 65 deg in the fermentor. Going to leave it for 3 weeks and then bottle.
Sounds good, once you get your equipment figured out, you can get going at a pretty good clip and shave about an hour or so off your time? How long did this take you to brew?
My first batch took 9 hours
Sounds good. My problem when making all grains was not using enough sparge water. some sugars got left in the grains. practice will bring your efficiency up.
post how it turns out.
DC
Nice job, welcome to the club.
Right on! I remember how nervous and what a build up it was on my first all grain batch just to have everything kind of fall into place and work out. Still one of the best beers I've ever brewed. Glad it worked out for you. Now the mystery is gone and you can charge full speed ahead into all grain brewing.
well, it didnt't take 9 hours for me, that would be one long brew day.... I wasn't really looking at a clock when I started or ended, but I'd guess it took something like 5 hours.
also, this is the first beer I've put in a glass carboy for primary ferment. It's pretty cool to see the activity in there. It had just a little bit of foam on the top this morning before work, now after work, it's gotten a lot thicker.
I used the US-05 yeast instead of the german ale yeast, so I'm kinda wondering how it's gonna turn out. Should still be good, just not how the recipe was originally intended.
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