See attached for photo. I completely screwed up yesterday. I attempted to brew all gain using brew in a bag.
Somehow I decided that using this hop filter, attached to the bottom hole would be a good idea to stain the wort going into primary fermenter.
Im using a dark star burner. I mashed at way too high of a temp like pretty much at boiling, entire 60 mins. Didn't use a false bottom. The rolling boil made the bag catch on this God awful thing and the bag tore speading my gains all over the bottom. Grains settled and burned to a crisp. Was a lot of fun cleaning that up lol.
I used bar keeps friend to clean the burned carbon off but now there is a pretty dark and what seems to be permanent mark at the bottom of my kettle.
Is this going to be an issue for future batches? Or using the kettle in general?
I plan on trying again Today using a false bottom, and mashing at the recommended 156F. I do blame the instructions. They were awful and told me to boil the grains the entire 60 mins. It also did not mention that I needed to brew with the lid off. Also the temperature Guage seems to be a bit high on the kettle, should I buy a temperature sensor that extends to the bottom of my kettle and make sure temperature does not exceed that reading since the bottom of kettle is way hotter than the top?
I appreciate your advice. Happy to provide more information.
Somehow I decided that using this hop filter, attached to the bottom hole would be a good idea to stain the wort going into primary fermenter.
Im using a dark star burner. I mashed at way too high of a temp like pretty much at boiling, entire 60 mins. Didn't use a false bottom. The rolling boil made the bag catch on this God awful thing and the bag tore speading my gains all over the bottom. Grains settled and burned to a crisp. Was a lot of fun cleaning that up lol.
I used bar keeps friend to clean the burned carbon off but now there is a pretty dark and what seems to be permanent mark at the bottom of my kettle.
Is this going to be an issue for future batches? Or using the kettle in general?
I plan on trying again Today using a false bottom, and mashing at the recommended 156F. I do blame the instructions. They were awful and told me to boil the grains the entire 60 mins. It also did not mention that I needed to brew with the lid off. Also the temperature Guage seems to be a bit high on the kettle, should I buy a temperature sensor that extends to the bottom of my kettle and make sure temperature does not exceed that reading since the bottom of kettle is way hotter than the top?
I appreciate your advice. Happy to provide more information.
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