All Grain Brewing
The alchemists were barking up the wrong tree - grain into gold, not lead
Now there are heaps of sites out there on all aspects of brewing and all grain techniques are no exception. My intention with these pages is not to become a treatise on all grain, more just a journal starting with my first ever all grain brew, mistakes and all. Hopefully, other people who haven't tried all grain might be inspired to try.
You might also be interested in PartialMash which shows my bumbling attempts at partial mashing - creating some very tasty beers indeed.
There is really only one difference between partial mashing and all grain: scale. Your mashtun and brewpot need to be big enough to handle a full batch, not to mention some losses that occur. Eg for a 23 litre batch you might need to extract more than 30 litres of wort from your mash and sparge. There are some other consequencs of that but I reckon that's it.
AllGrain/1 Not only my first AG, my first Wit beer.
AllGrain/2 I am just starting to improve on the equipment from the first one. Aside from low efficiency in the first AG (Wit Beer), the main issues seemed to be the restricted volume I could mash/sparge in my existing esky, and the limitations of my stove top in maintaining a rolling boil. Update: the efficiency issues appear to have been licked.
- All Grain 3 is an attempt at a Pils. Nothing really to write about so it doesn't have its own page. I cracked 90% mash efficiency for the second time.
AllGrain/4 New, maltier APA recipe. Some pics of new brew stand. Cracked 90% again. Must get my hydrometer checked
Unless something particularly interesting pops up, I have given up documenting every brew (at least here on the wiki). Since making the roller mill have moving to the new mashtun, I have had 4 brews in a row at very close to 90%. I do need to make some improvements in the way wort is moved around on brewday - that will probably be my next project.
paul sorenson