PashMaddle
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Brew...night?
I was going to brew an American brown ale tonight and got all my grains crushed and everything else weighed out and cleaned my anvil foundry.... again, then realized that I don't have any distilled water to calibrate my refractometer. I have since found a workaround but it's like 3 am and don't want to be up long into the day brewing (I work third shift so I'm a night owl). This was going to be my first brew day in like 10 years and my very first all grain brew but noooo I have to be a big dummy face and not have all the things I need. So, I just explained how brewing works to my ten year old daughter instead (which she was surprisingly interested in) and then came here to bellyache about it.
Anyway, here's what I've got milled/prepped and ready to go tomorrow when I get up:
4.5 lbs. of Pale malt
1lb caramel 60
6 oz chocolate malt
4 oz of oats ("quick" oats)
some?...4oz ish rice hulls
beta amylase @149 *F for 15 minutes
alpha amylase 2 @158* F for 45 minutes
mashout @167*F for 10
boil/hops schedule:
6 oz molasses @90 min.
.125 oz Sabro @60 min (I'm scared of this hop ruining my beer now but I already have it so....)
.25 HBC 472 @30 min
some yeast nutrients @15
.125 HBC 472 @ 5 min
...chill it to pitching temp, throw in some bry97, shake it like a bad babysitter and put it in my chest freezer @65 degrees until it turns into beer.
then I'll inevitably panic about everything and post a majillion dumb questions on here.
I left out all the sanitization stuff but Ill be doing that too...I promise.
thoughts? suggestions? I have no idea wtf I'm doing....does it show?
I was going to brew an American brown ale tonight and got all my grains crushed and everything else weighed out and cleaned my anvil foundry.... again, then realized that I don't have any distilled water to calibrate my refractometer. I have since found a workaround but it's like 3 am and don't want to be up long into the day brewing (I work third shift so I'm a night owl). This was going to be my first brew day in like 10 years and my very first all grain brew but noooo I have to be a big dummy face and not have all the things I need. So, I just explained how brewing works to my ten year old daughter instead (which she was surprisingly interested in) and then came here to bellyache about it.
Anyway, here's what I've got milled/prepped and ready to go tomorrow when I get up:
4.5 lbs. of Pale malt
1lb caramel 60
6 oz chocolate malt
4 oz of oats ("quick" oats)
some?...4oz ish rice hulls
beta amylase @149 *F for 15 minutes
alpha amylase 2 @158* F for 45 minutes
mashout @167*F for 10
boil/hops schedule:
6 oz molasses @90 min.
.125 oz Sabro @60 min (I'm scared of this hop ruining my beer now but I already have it so....)
.25 HBC 472 @30 min
some yeast nutrients @15
.125 HBC 472 @ 5 min
...chill it to pitching temp, throw in some bry97, shake it like a bad babysitter and put it in my chest freezer @65 degrees until it turns into beer.
then I'll inevitably panic about everything and post a majillion dumb questions on here.
I left out all the sanitization stuff but Ill be doing that too...I promise.
thoughts? suggestions? I have no idea wtf I'm doing....does it show?