Journal of Brewing

Starter
Made the typical starter with my new pyrex flask!! Oxygenated it for 1 minute and put it on the new stirrer. Oh yes, there was flocculation…

Holy Jesus!

Ran a partial mash with the grains. 3lbs of grains x 1.25 quarts/lb of water so 3.75 quarts. Sparged with 3 x 1.5 = 4.5 quarts. Mash got stuck, had to add the sparge water early to get things moving. Most likely grain bed was not deep enough due to the surface area of the cooler. I think I only hit a 45% mash efficiency. Well you live you learn.

Collected around 1.5 ~ 2 gallons of wort. S.G. when temperature corrected 1.031. Added boiling hops and boiled for 45. Added malt extracts, returned to boil. Added aroma hops in the last 5 minutes.

Cooled to 73, transferred to fermenter. Topped up with water to 5 gallons. Oxygenated for 1 minute, pitched yeast starter.

O.G. 1.066