This was my brew day – Regal Pale Ale – the National Homebrew Competition gold-medal American pale ale recipe. I did this for the 2014 Big Brew and it was a hit so this is a sequel.
My set up
command central
dough in
first runnings
3.5 gal spot on
second runnings
a bit over 7 gal
I love this new mash/lauter tun. I have about 1/2 a cup dead space.
boil started - first hop addition
boil complete – draining the hop spider
cooling the wort
ready for the US-05 yeast to turn my wort into beer
The recipe calls for an OG of 1.056 but Beersmith says 1.052. I got 1.052 out of it which is cool. Beersmith says I got just north of 77% efficiency. I’m good with that.
Do you tilt the cooler when you batch sparge? I think I have the same cooler ( 72 quart extreme 5 day ) and I seem to have more dead space than a couple of cups or my math/beersmith profile is just wrong. Do you my sharing your beersmith equipment profile? Thanks for the post and pictures.
Mine is the smaller 36 Qt. I had to tilt my old one but don’t have to tilt this one at all. Plus, I don’t lose heat during the mash. I’ll figure out how to share my profile and get back to you.
It did. SWMBO got me that for a gift. It’s so fast it has FLAMES! LOL
My brew area shares space with my outdoor “kitchen”. It’s really just a couple cookers and a home built center table (aka “cheap and easy”) but it works!
