I finished brewing late. The carboy is happily sitting in the freezer. Here is the final recipe<\/p>\n
4 lbs. Maris Otter Pale Malt
\n8 ounce CaraPils
\n6 ounces flaked wheat
\n2 ounces cooked oatmeal
\n6.6 lbs. Briess Pilsen light liquid malt extract
\n1 lb Hawaiian Turbinado Sugar (sugar in the raw)<\/p>\n
1 oz Chinook Hops 60 mins
\n.5 oz Kent Goldings (whole) 20 mins
\n.5 oz Kent Goldings (whole) 15 mins
\n1 tsp irish moss 15 mins
\n1 tsp Wyeast nutrient 15 mins
\n1 oz Cascade (whole) 10 mins
\nAdd Turbinado Sugar @ 10 mins
\n.5 oz Kent Goldings (whole) 5 mins
\n.5 oz Kent Goldings (whole) 1 min<\/p>\n
The final SG was 1.050 @ 76.5F in 6.5 gallons (1.052 corrected)<\/p>\n
The oatmeal was prepared by cooking it in 2 cups of water on the stove for 8 minutes then adding another cup of water to thin it out.<\/p>\n
The mashing went ok. I had a problem getting the wort to flow. I found that the knot in the hop sock used in my improvised manifold had clogged up the spigot. I ended up dumping the mash into a pot, fixing the manifold, and dumping everything back into the mash tun. I tried to minimize the amount of spashing, but we will see how it goes once fermentation has finished. I collected 13 quarts of wort from the mash. SG was 1.040 @ 87.4 F(1.043 corrected).<\/p>\n
The boil was uneventful save a small boilover. I found that wort has a tendency to boil over a min or two after hop additions. I used the airstone for about 40 mins once the wort was in the fermenter to introduce oxygen. <\/p>\n
I was going to make an attempt to let the hot and cold break settle once I sparged the wort into the fermenter, but My second carboy that I was going to syphon into had some crud on the inside that I was not able to scrub out. so I left that carboy soaking overnight to see if the crud will come out. I am going to look for something to clean the insides of carboys that is better than a carboy brush. They just don’t seem to be able to get this crud off.<\/p>\n
I sparged into the carboy as normal, but this time I only put in 1.5 gallons of water then sparged into the carboy. I rinsed the hops a little to extract the remaining sugars, and topped off with another 1 gallon of spring water and the remainder distilled and RO water.<\/p>\n
The only thing to note is that I should have added the yeast starter, then topped up with water to 6 gallon mark, then aerated. This would have worked the best. <\/p>\n
The next time I need to remember to chill the water. Also make sure I have a fermenter cleaned so I can let things settle and syphon off the hot and cold break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I finished brewing late. The carboy is happily sitting in the freezer. Here is the final recipe 4 lbs. Maris Otter Pale Malt 8 ounce CaraPils 6 ounces flaked wheat 2 ounces cooked oatmeal 6.6 lbs. Briess Pilsen light liquid malt extract 1 lb Hawaiian Turbinado Sugar (sugar in the raw) 1 oz Chinook Hops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esb-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}