East Coast American Pale Ale

[molc]

25% flaked oats always makes for a very slow sparge. *cry*

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[irish_goat]

Any rice hulls or oat husks in there? Find they help things big time when it comes to sparging. Also help regulate temperature, but that's less of an issue with a grainfather.

[molc]

Nope. My own damn fault. I milled the oat flakes as well - what was I thinking

Anyway, it's all tucked into the fermenter now and coming down to yeast pitch temp.

[nigel_c]

Rice hulls. If only there was an extra 40kg of them knocking around.

[mick02]

Will be brewing this tomorrow. Just going through the recipe, the grain and hop bill and my volumes.

Made some slight adjustments and worked out my water additions. Will be testing and calibrating my pH meter this evening and will set up the Grainfather with strike water and water additions this evening. I'll be in full flow by 09.00.

Not using as much flaked oats as you Molc so hoping to get through the sparge a lot quicker.

Will post some info during brew day tomorrow if I get a chance.

Aiming for O.G. of 1062

[pob]

Rice hulls. If only there was an extra 40kg of them knocking around.

I'd say you have to go travel far to find them

[molc]

Will be brewing this tomorrow. Just going through the recipe, the grain and hop bill and my volumes.

Made some slight adjustments and worked out my water additions. Will be testing and calibrating my pH meter this evening and will set up the Grainfather with strike water and water additions this evening. I'll be in full flow by 09.00.

Not using as much flaked oats as you Molc so hoping to get through the sparge a lot quicker.

Will post some info during brew day tomorrow if I get a chance.

Aiming for O.G. of 1062

Hehe I went for an og of 1.050 and got 1.048. gas starting from the same guidelines how we've gone in very different directions I have a lot of big beers on tap right now so aiming for something a little more sessionable.

Since it's the same hop balance, it's going to be fascinating to see these side by side

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[nigel_c]

Rice hulls. If only there was an extra 40kg of them knocking around.

I'd say you have to go travel far to find them

Not in the north county.

[Will_D]

Not in the north county.

Tee Hee!!

[mick02]

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Aiming for O.G. of 1062

Hit 1061. Happy enough with that. Slow enough sparge but other than that a flawless brew day

[molc]

Went to add the first dry hop this evening - looks like the yeast is rearing to go. It was just a thin kreustan 24 hours ago

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[BigDanny84]

Looks good. What type of fitting is that on your fermonster? I've a plastic tap on mine but that looks better

[molc]

Looks good. What type of fitting is that on your fermonster? I've a plastic tap on mine but that looks better

https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/ss-brewtech-racking-arm/

I use it for closed transfers to kegs.

[mick02]

Just checked my beer there and it's fully attenuated... 2 days in
It's tasting good bit it's missing that hop aroma, I'm thinking it was stripped during fermentation (racked from the kettle onto hops in the fermenter). I'll be doing a second dry hop to get the aroma I'm looking for. So far so good.

[BigDanny84]

Looks good. What type of fitting is that on your fermonster? I've a plastic tap on mine but that looks better

https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/ss-brewtech-racking-arm/

I use it for closed transfers to kegs.

Thanks Molc