Turricaine
Well-Known Member
This is what I do:
Dump 6kg pale into a 5 gallon bucket and 250g crystal for caramelization.
Cover with enough water that you have some good headspace.
Heat with electric filament until the water at the top starts to boil, periodically stirring at intervals.
Switch off the filament, and reattach it to the wort bucket with the tap and tie the mash bag around.
Dump the gains into the mash bag and maintain the temperature at 64C for another hour. Not so much heating is required for this second step. The wort should be very sugary tasting by now.
Collect the first few litres of wort, and return to the top of the grain bed.
Do some rotating sparging using hot, but not really steamy water. In total you collect maybe 5.5 gallons of wort. Give the filament a good clean etc before starting the next step, and make sure u have some spare plug fuses on hand just in case.
Heat the wort up real good and dump half a packet (~60g) decent freezedried hop flowers. The 6% variety I use (progress) gives good characteristics. Continue boiling until you are satisfied that you have extracted most of the bitterness and have a rolling boil.
The rest is standard procedure.
Dump 6kg pale into a 5 gallon bucket and 250g crystal for caramelization.
Cover with enough water that you have some good headspace.
Heat with electric filament until the water at the top starts to boil, periodically stirring at intervals.
Switch off the filament, and reattach it to the wort bucket with the tap and tie the mash bag around.
Dump the gains into the mash bag and maintain the temperature at 64C for another hour. Not so much heating is required for this second step. The wort should be very sugary tasting by now.
Collect the first few litres of wort, and return to the top of the grain bed.
Do some rotating sparging using hot, but not really steamy water. In total you collect maybe 5.5 gallons of wort. Give the filament a good clean etc before starting the next step, and make sure u have some spare plug fuses on hand just in case.
Heat the wort up real good and dump half a packet (~60g) decent freezedried hop flowers. The 6% variety I use (progress) gives good characteristics. Continue boiling until you are satisfied that you have extracted most of the bitterness and have a rolling boil.
The rest is standard procedure.