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Well after a lot of planning we have finally done our first all grain beer, and an IPA at that.
A lot easier but a lot more time consuming than I originally thought.
I think the final product is going to be good. We used the following recipe from the beerlab website:
All day IPA:
Batch size: 20 liters
Efficiency: 70.0%
Water needed
13 L @72 C for Mash-in (Mash ratio = 2.6 L of water per kg grain)
20 L @ 76 C for Sparge (Sparge ratio = 1.5 x quantity of Mash Water)
Ingredients
5.8 kg Pale Malt (5 kg Pale + 0.8kg pilsner)
0.3 kg Pale Crystal Malt (20 L)
100 g Amber Malt (Cara amber)
Hops: 30 g Southern Passion (US 4/78) (9%) - 60 min
Hops: 20 g Cascade (6.5%) - 15 min (before end of boil)
Hops: 15 g Southern Passion (US 4/78) (9%) 15 min (before end of boil)
Hops: 15 g Simcoe - 1 min (before end of boil)
5 ml Irish moss - 15 min (before the end of the boil)
Fermentis Safale SO5 or Bry-97 West Coast American Ale yeast
The wort came out a beautiful amber colour with an OG of 1.065
Lessons learnt:
Building and setting up equipment takes a lot of time! Estimate how long you need. Then double that. Then add 5.33 hours on top of that.
1/2 inch soft copper pipe is not the same as 1/2 inch plumbers pipe. (Still need to sort this one out)
Boiled wort is very very sticky if it boils over.
Glass carbouys are the business! its lekker to check your beer fermenting. Thanks Faan.
Some questions:
By the end of the brew day we had sampled a bit too much of the coopers lager that we previously brewed and forgot to take a gravity reading. I remembered about 2 minutes after adding the yeast. Do you think this will have an impact on the SG reading?
Does spent grains make a good compost for your lawn?
Here are some pics:
Our hybrid wort chiller. I have very limited space and cant stomach the thought of hundreds of litres of water going to waste. 15m of copper pipe coiled in an old dustbin. This will then be filled with water and 2l coke bottles filled with water that have been frozen.
Mash Tun. Brew Kettle and modified Urn.
I removed the standard tap from the urn, drilled the hole bigger and replaced with a proper ball valve. The urn works wonderfully at keeping the sparge water at the correct temperature. I then connected a cheap shower hose and head for continuous sparging. This worked excellently and provided a gentle distribution of sparge water.
Sparging took about 45min.
The final product. so excited and cant wait to sample.
A lot easier but a lot more time consuming than I originally thought.
I think the final product is going to be good. We used the following recipe from the beerlab website:
All day IPA:
Batch size: 20 liters
Efficiency: 70.0%
- Original Gravity: 1.060
- Final Gravity: 1.015
- Alcohol: 5.9%
- Bitterness: 51.6 IBU
- Boil duration: 60 min
Water needed
13 L @72 C for Mash-in (Mash ratio = 2.6 L of water per kg grain)
20 L @ 76 C for Sparge (Sparge ratio = 1.5 x quantity of Mash Water)
Ingredients
5.8 kg Pale Malt (5 kg Pale + 0.8kg pilsner)
0.3 kg Pale Crystal Malt (20 L)
100 g Amber Malt (Cara amber)
Hops: 30 g Southern Passion (US 4/78) (9%) - 60 min
Hops: 20 g Cascade (6.5%) - 15 min (before end of boil)
Hops: 15 g Southern Passion (US 4/78) (9%) 15 min (before end of boil)
Hops: 15 g Simcoe - 1 min (before end of boil)
5 ml Irish moss - 15 min (before the end of the boil)
Fermentis Safale SO5 or Bry-97 West Coast American Ale yeast
The wort came out a beautiful amber colour with an OG of 1.065
Lessons learnt:
Building and setting up equipment takes a lot of time! Estimate how long you need. Then double that. Then add 5.33 hours on top of that.
1/2 inch soft copper pipe is not the same as 1/2 inch plumbers pipe. (Still need to sort this one out)
Boiled wort is very very sticky if it boils over.
Glass carbouys are the business! its lekker to check your beer fermenting. Thanks Faan.
Some questions:
By the end of the brew day we had sampled a bit too much of the coopers lager that we previously brewed and forgot to take a gravity reading. I remembered about 2 minutes after adding the yeast. Do you think this will have an impact on the SG reading?
Does spent grains make a good compost for your lawn?
Here are some pics:
Our hybrid wort chiller. I have very limited space and cant stomach the thought of hundreds of litres of water going to waste. 15m of copper pipe coiled in an old dustbin. This will then be filled with water and 2l coke bottles filled with water that have been frozen.
Mash Tun. Brew Kettle and modified Urn.
I removed the standard tap from the urn, drilled the hole bigger and replaced with a proper ball valve. The urn works wonderfully at keeping the sparge water at the correct temperature. I then connected a cheap shower hose and head for continuous sparging. This worked excellently and provided a gentle distribution of sparge water.
Sparging took about 45min.
The final product. so excited and cant wait to sample.
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