Hi – finally completed my 1st BIAB after much planning and what a disaster!! I’m hoping you guys can help me establish where I have gone wrong so #2 is a bit more successful.
RECIPE
Aimed to do the Amarillo Pale Ale recipe on here – my scaled recipe was:
Brewlength: 12l
Grains (bought pre-milled)
Pale Ale Malt: 2,781g
Munich 1: 557g
Cara Amber: 282g
Hops
US Amarillo (5.3AA) – 30g @ 60 mins and 25g @ 20 mins.
Misc
½ tsp Protafloc and ½ tsps Yeast Nutrient 10 mins before boil end.
Yeast – Safale US-05
Kettle – 27 litre straight sided jam maker (adjustable temp dial)
PROCESS
Day started badly with a smashed thermometer, so none of my temps could be calibrated (used a jam therm. and a aquarium therm.). Rained the grain @ 65C and achieved following temps (20 mins -64C; 40 mins – 67C; 60 mins – 62C). Removed bag after 90 mins.
My jam make failed to achieve a rolling boil as the temp cut-off just shy of 100C (I have established that this can now be overridden, which I will do next time) so average temp for the boil was around 97C. Boiled for 90 mins.
After the boil, I measured the gravity – 1.038 !!! This was after allowing wort to cool etc. After 7 days in the fermenter (constant 20C) only dropped to 1.020.
As you can see, not a successful 1st try. My kettle needs tweaking to achieve a rolling boil but I didn’t think this would impact so much on gravity readings (which I have calibrated). I’m determined to brew good beer, so please help !!
Cheers guys (and sorry for the novel!!)
Kenny
1st BIAB = Disaster...HELP
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Last edited by Telford QPR on 21 Jul 2011, 20:23, edited 5 times in total.
