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Hi all, Have just bottled my second all grain brew. Should be much nicer than my first, seems that even though the urn played up a bit it didn't effect the hop additions too badly. We'll see how it tastes in a few weeks! Starting to plan my final brew before I head over to Vancouver, Canada (Again, ...

Hmmm. Seems temp effects the Gravity reading far more than I expected (or the wort was a lot warmer than I thought). I took some of the wort out of the boiler after I topped up the water to 27l. I let it cool till it was luke-warm to warm and measured the gravity. It read 1.034. I then left the samp...

Gravity is 1.040 again, really thought I would have got a bit more efficiency :( Oh well. And now i've added more water at the end so will be lower alc ...

Will keep in touch as I go :)

OK, so for your benefit and mine, here is what I did :) Brought up to strike temp and added grain while stirring vigorously. Used same grain bill as last time. 4kg Pale Malt, 0.2kg Crystal and 0.1kg Melanoidin. After stirring them in, the temp was 66C and I closed it all up. 45min into mash I opened...

Thanks Dick. I seem to have hit a snag tho :( I am hiring exactly the same urn as last time. It's the same individual one. There was a mark I made on the element and its the same urn but they seemed to have fixed the dry-boil control mechanism! Last time I used the urn I just put it on 6 and it got ...

OK. So have been giving away the last batch to friends who seem to like it far more than I do! Lucky for me and lucky for them :) So just started mashing my next batch. Sticking with the same recipe but I want to try and do it properly this time. To try and improve extract efficiency, I have made th...

OK. Will let it sit a while longer and see how it tastes. Also bringing some into work to see if there are ppl that like it. Would rather someone drinks it over dumping it but I want to do another batch now that this one isn't nice, so kinda need the bottles (used all my nice grolsch swing-tops)! Wi...

OK. So been away on Holiday and only back now. Took some of the beers with and unfortunately my stuff-up with the hop additions has resulted in a way too hoppy flavour. Pretty tempted to dump the batch :(

Any ideas of what else can be done with the beer? ;) hehe

Joshua, that's really interesting. It never even crossed my mind that that could be the reason for raising the temp for mash out :)

What other things could increase my efficiency?

Hey all, First of all I just want to say thanks for all the great information. I have learnt so much from this brew! Going to go into my next one with far more knowledge behind me :) Going on Holiday mid next week so will leave it as long as possible before I bottle and then leave it to mature in th...

Ya, was just a bit surprised. The gravity at the moment is at about 1.011. So will see what it says tomorrow evening! Seem to have got some trub or something from the boil :( some chunky bits coming out of the tap, not great. Hopefully will settle. Unfortunately have nowhere to do secondary so strai...

Joshua, good to know :) Temp is warm. Around 22C+ so I don't think thats the issue. Will test gravity now and then again tomorrow evening and see. Will post here what I find

Dick: At the end of the boil it was around 21l. How do I use this to calculate efficiency and how does that effect OG? In terms of measuring the OG, I just removed some of the wort into my measuring cylinder when it was still pretty hot and left it to cool to room temp, then measured the gravity. Ye...

Hey all, Finally got everything together and did my brew yesterday! Took a along time (as expected) but was super interesting! Had a few hiccups along the way, which I will describe below, but hopefully it all worked out in the end! Only time will tell :) So first off, the urn I used was a 36l urn w...

Hi Dick, Finally getting around to doing this brew this weekend. We are having a little 'festival' this weekend with all the home and micro brewers in town and then will spend Sat or Sun afternoon doing my first AG brew! Can't wait :) I have a question about the grains. In your recipe you have a tot...

YAY!

Just got my malts. Bought 4kg of Pale Malt, 1kg of Crystal and 1kg of Melanoidin (sp?) as well as 100g of Cascade Hops.

Just need to wait for my current extract + spray dried malt brew to finish and then I'll tackle this one.

Can't wait!

Ok. So still super keen but have been thinking about things a bit. In all likelihood I will be heading to Vancouver in about 3 months to study/work for the next 2 years so am a little reluctant to invest too much money at this point. I can either buy a second hand urn and sell it or I can simply hir...

G'day from SA! Thanks so much. That seems VERY doable and I am assuming I can just get the grain amounts and temps from your recipe here http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=254 . Do you have any other recipes customised to this method yet? I will tackle the recipe conversion thing on my ne...

30l Urn, first AG brew

Hi all, New to the forum, new to brewing, new to AG and new to BIAB! But hoping to make a success of it all :) I have been looking around for adequate kettles etc.. and it seems that my best option is a 2nd hand 30l urn that I have found in the classifieds. Will hopefully go pick it up in the next d...

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