Dawson's Multigrain Red (All Grain)
Dawson's Multigrain Red (All Grain) (NB U0054)
First attempt at an all-grain brew. Using "Brew -in-a-Bag" technique with jury-rigged gantry arm over 16 gal keggle on deck. Temps measure with small "tea/coffee" thermometer.
March 23, 2013
13:00 	Prepare starter. In 2L Erlenmeyer: 1 liter water, 100 g DME, 1/8 tsp yeast energizer, 1/8 tsp yeast nutrients. Boiled ~10 minutes. Covered with foil. Smacked WYeast 1335.
16:00	After smack-pack swelled, pitched into starter.  Allowed to ferment overnight, given occassional swirlings.
March 24, 2013
12:18	Fill boiler with 8 gal water. Flame on.
12:43 	Water temp 162°F. Ideal saccharification rest temp: 152°F. Expecting massive heat loss due to ambient air temp of ~0°C.
12:48	160°F. Flame off. Add grains, cover and insulate (with black comforter). Begin 60 min sacch rest.
13:08	158°F. Too high, remove partial insulation.
13:22	152°F.
13:48	150°F. Sacch rest complete. Raise grain bag and flame on.
13:55	170°F. Lower bag. Begin 10 min mashout.
14:05	Mashout finished. Raise bag. Flame on. (Bag remains suspended over boiler to allow liquid to drip.)
14:15	Begin 60 min boil. There was at least one boil-over during this period. It was otherwise tricky to maintain an adequate level of boil given the cold ambient temp.
~15:05	Introducted wort chiller to boiler.
15:15	Flame off. Boil finished. Begin cooling.
~15:25	Cooling finished. Transfer to 6.5 gal carboy. Some clogging during transfer (need to acquire screen for interior pipe).
	Finished with ~6 gal wort @ 1.034. That's one gallon too many. Oxygenated with a bit of O2. Pitched entire starter solution and stored in office.
March 24, 2013
9:00 	Active fermentation. Space heater went into overdrive and warmed office to 80°F. Carboy shows >78°F. Way too high! By later in the day the temp had returned to normal and remained near 70°F thereafter. Primary fermentation petered out within a few days, as normal.
April 7, 2013
13:00 	Rack to secondary (5gal). Also bottled 3 bottles (2 @ 32oz, 1 @ 22oz) to which was added straight corn sugar for priming (3 tsp / 32 oz; 2 tsp / 22 oz). 1.017 (2.3% ABV)
Suggest kegging: May 5
June 9, 2013
12:23 	Clean and reassemble keg (using keg lube on all gaskets). Evacuate 5 gal keg with CO2. Rack beer to keg. FG: 1.020 (1.9% ABV)