5 October 2019
My stick thermometer shows 30.6 degF in ice water, 217.2 degF in boiling water at approx 1 atm. Assuming a 5 degF bias on all measurements (i.e. if 150 degrees is desired for mash, shoot for 155 on the thermometer).
90 minutes mash at ~147-150 degF variable
mashout at 80 minutes up to degF
Lauter ~1.5 gallons then recirculate wort. sparge with 190 degF water. The sparge is semi-stuck - very slow flow. Waiting a long time to collect 4.5 gallons of wort.
Kettle wort brix 15.4 = 1.062 SG.
Boil:
~4 gallons collected
30 minute boil
- rolling boil but not too heavy
Immersion chiller (3/8" x 50') placed in at 10 minutes left.
At flameout, all hops were added directly to the wort and the immersion chiller was turned on gently, to bring down to ~170 deg F then turned off.
Held 30 minutes for hop stand.
Chiller used to bring wort down to room temp. Wort left to sit for 5 minutes then transferred to fermenter (after being interrupted by a stray, sick cat) by dumping through a mesh strainer for aeration. Lots of hop gunk clogged up the strainer. YEETed that right out in to the yard and continued dumping. Some wort was poured out accidentally for the homies.
13L (3.25 gal) accumulated in the fermenter. Accidents happen. The fermenter was closed, 2 sachets of US-05 yeast added directly to cold wort, and airlock affixed. Duct tape was liberally added due to the fact that my bucket fermenter is leaky. Fingers crossed for Ninkasi to smile on this fermentation.
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Update 7 October 2019 1:15 pm while procrastinating at work
Fermentation ticking right along. It peaked in the evening of 6 October, but still bubbling the morning of 7 October.
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Update 17 October 2019 9:06 pm
Cold crashed two days, while also infusing jasmine tea for 2 days in Absolut vodka.
Tastes sweet out of the fermenter with a boozy nose. 8.2 brix = 1.033 SG? Seems wrong.
