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cyburai
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Anyone brewing this weekend?

#1 Post by cyburai » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:52 am

Bill and I are going to do a double mini-mash of oatmeal stout.

Anyone else putting something together?
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Brewed my first all grain

#2 Post by passlaku » Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:20 pm

I brewed my first IPA all grain recipe. Went down to Alternative Beverage (ebrew.com) and picked up

12 # 2 row pale malt
8 oz CaraPils
12 oz of Crystal 60

1 oz Amarillo (first wort hop)
2 oz " " (60 minutes)
1 oz (30)
1 oz (15)

I batched sparged got a little bit less than 2 gallons on the first running (water at 165F and the bed was at 156F). I then sparged with 172F water (bed stayed at 156F) and ended up with 6 gallons of wort.

Let's see how that turns out.

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#3 Post by Greenblood » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:43 am

Is this your first all grain, or your first all grain IPA? Either way, congrats! What was your OG?

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#4 Post by passlaku » Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:46 pm

Yes this was my first AG beer. The OG was 1.050 (at 100F) the corrected gravity is 1.056. I didn't check the gravity before the boil, so I am not sure I know my efficiency. From what I am told, batch sparging is pretty inefficient.

I used S-04 dry yeast, first time using dry yeast. It is supposed to be like the whitelabs' english ale yeast.

It takes a bit more time but the getting the wort out is so rewarding.

Thanks.

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#5 Post by cyburai » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:33 pm

Preboil gravity was 1.050
OG was 1.066

Even though it was a trying day (immersion chiller split in the boil, hell to chill, yeast took 20+ hours to get started), it's looking pretty good.

Guess we'll see what happens in the end.

Wort tasted damn good though.
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#6 Post by cyburai » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:21 pm

Well, I guess the yeast decided it wanted to work out after all..

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I had to add blowoffs this morning.

Sorry for the blurry picture.. My camera phone is only as good as the operator.
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#7 Post by Blktre » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:29 pm

whoooohoooo.....congrats!
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#8 Post by Jensen » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:58 am

The beer looks like it is going great, what concerns me is what is in the background. Is that a bottle of white zin in the rack? I hope and pray it is some sort of wonderful french rose.....

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