Monday, July 15, 2013

Going All-Grain

We had a busy weekend of brewing firsts, not only did we create a setup for and brew a lager beer, we also brewed our first all grain batch. We mashed in a bountiful 17 pound grain bill of Belgian Malts to make a Belgian style pale ale inspired by the Yellow Diamond Belgian Pale Ale recipe in Randy Mosher’s Radical Brewing. We enjoyed learning new techniques and knowing we made a beer from all raw products. We may have to tweak our approach to getting our mash-out temp but we are excited to see how this one turns out.

Here are some pictures from the first all-grain brew.

The setup...


The saccharification rest (coverts the grain's starches into sugars) followed by sparging the grains ("rinsing" the grains of those sugars)...


A closer look at sparging...



Now to the outdoors for the boil...


Pitch the yeast and let it ferment...




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