George and Greg get down on there first brew. It's 3 pm and it's a Saturday. Things got real fast.
First brew is a cream ale. We heated the 3 gallons of strike water to around 162 degrees and put it in the cooler. The temp was slightly below 150 degrees. We mixed in the grain and let the games begin.
We then heated the water for the hot liquor tank. It took longer than expected. We heated four gallons to 175 degrees and put it in the other gatorade cooler. The valve on this was leaky and we lost some of the water. This caused us to rush on the sparge.
We also needed to bring 1.5 gallons to a boil. We ran out of time on this as well. We added the gallon and a half to the mash at about 190 degrees. This only brought the mash up to around 164 degrees, instead of 170 degrees.
During the sparge the false bottom clogged. We had to take the mash out and unclog the false bottom. We completed the sparge and ended up with just over five gallons of wort. We boiled this for an hour.
We then used cheese cloth to try to filter the beer best we could and reduce the trub.
We put it in the fermentor and let the bubbling begin....
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