They ran out of vienna malt at the store so I switched my vienna and munich malt in the recipe. Itll be a little darker than I anticipated but hey, it will be beer.
Mashed about 153 for 45 min. Tried to batch sparge but the manifold must have come off when I was stirring. I had to empty into the 5 gallon lexan and then reattached the manifold to start my sparge. Got down to 135 and temps never recovered.
Vorlaufed about 2 gallons and it never really cleared like I wanted. I just started sparging anyway as it jad been 20 mins of vorlauf already. Ended up doing a continuous sparge.
Got almost 7 gallons of wort. Started the boil with 6 and added the 7th after about 30 mins and I had boiled off some. Chiller at 15 mins. Irish moss at 10. Flamout hops.
First time using brewsmith software. Ill probably buy it when the trial expires. Seems to be pretty detailed.
Looks like just a touch shy on volume and just a bit over on OG. Ill adjusy my mash tun dead space and boil off rates on the software.
Should have had 5.35 gallons at 1.053 into the fermenter. I'm going to call it 4.9 gallons at 1.055. Looks like I need more water and more grain next time.
Into the fermenter and the fermenter ina water bath with some ice trying to ferment arounf 54 degrees.
1.22.2013 took almost 4 days with the cold temps but there are indications of kruasen.
Feb 10th, I was reviewing my notes and realized I needed to dry hop. I've added my hops and checked the temps. Sitting right around 58 degrees and looks like it is clearing nicely. Another 2 weeks or so and I'll bottle it up and start the storage or lagering phase
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