First AG BIAB - Citra SMaSH Pale Ale

[Parky]

Nicely done, looks like a pretty solid recipe, and with the Amarillo in there, it'll be tasty brew! 

[IrishBeerSnob]

Wort cooling now.

[IrishBeerSnob]

Big learning curve with this method.
After boil, only had about 8L - meaning OG was 1.072.
Need to figure out the Volumes on the pot - probably make marks to mark the litre's.

[Hop Bomb]

Congrats on the first brew!

Re: missing your target volume & gravity - Dilute with water to hit your target OG. Otherwise your brew will be out of whack. You'll have a 8% IPA with only 40 odd IBUs.

[IrishBeerSnob]

Thanks mate.
Too late now - its capped up and in the carboys! 
You live you learn!

Definitely going to make marks on inside of kettle with a sharpy to let me know what is 13l pre boil and 10l post boil

[dcalnan]

Doing something like this, http://imgur.com/a/dCvS5 might be safer than using a sharpie. I've yet to try it out but it looks fairly easy.

[molc]

That is excellent. Gotta love science

[IrishBeerSnob]

That is ingenius!

[Hop Bomb]

Make yourself a dip stick. That'd work too.

You could add isomerised hop extract to your fermentor to bump up the IBUs if yer arsed.

[NeillC]

I've read if you do etch your kettle like this then you need to passivate the ether surface after to stop it tarnishing. You can use a strong starsan solution. Don't have the concentration to hand.

[IrishBeerSnob]

Think a dipstick is a great idea - easy to do too!
Bubbling away nicely now in the fermenters.
Beersmith says leave in Primary for 2 weeks? With kit i usually move to secondary after about 5/6 days.

[IrishBeerSnob]

Ok, just done gravity check - its gone from 1.072 to 1.021 in 6 days, More to go i'd imagine.
Tastes really good - nice level of bitterness.

Even though airlocks have slowed right down is it safe to assume it is still working away?

[Qs]

Yeah don't worry too much about the airlocks, should still be plenty of work for the yeast to do. You almost certainly will end up with a much higher FG than anticipated though since your OG was so high.

[IrishBeerSnob]

So i just follow standard procedure - take a gravity reading a day and when its the same two / three days its done?

[DEMPSEY]

You pitched yeast on the 11th I see. So primery is complete but you will need to leave it some time for secondary to clean up the beer.