Guest Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Morning all. Think I may have made a bit of a boo boo the other day.. it was late, I was half cut, ended up doing a grain addition to a Pale Ale kit. Which was recipe as fillows CPA Kit BE1 250g (there abouts)Carapils 250g (there abouts)Wheat malt (grain) 250g Light Crystal (60) 500g Pilsner malt 400g DME 150g Dex umm... possibly something else too.. no notes but used pretty much everthing I had laying about[innocent] I thought the pilsner malt was actually Pale Malt.. oops Mashed in at 67 and out at 63..(60 min) I was happy with the temps in general but since have read that pilsner malt "can benifit" from a D rest for half hour and from what Ive read should mash in low (63ish) and raise the temps with the D reast in the middle with the Mash out at 67. Seems I did it backward.. er.. whats that gunna do? It's only a small amount so she'll be right yeah? OG came out at 1050 @ 26Lt, repitched washed US-05 and it took off overnight, nice krausen and after 24 hours had dropped 12 points. Pretty happy with process, this was a kind of a test of equipment and process more than anything so just wondering if there are opinions on what/if I did anything wrong. I do love to experiment though[cool] Yob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB2 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 [rightful] This is one of those little golden rules - Don't drink and brew [rightful] A "D rest" is normally the term for Diacetyl Rest during fermentation. Do you mean Protein Rest, one of the steps in the decoction mash profile?? A Protein Rest is recommended when using malted grain that is not fully modified. However, I'm tipping the malt probably is fully modified. If not the small amount used (500g), compared to the total fermentables is not significant enough to have an effect. EDIT - you did bring the wort (from the grains) to the boil, yeah? and at 26litres the bitterness will be quite low - I assume that you boiled some hops. BE1 has maltodextrin at the rate of 40% - no need to add this when you're using various grains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share Posted June 21, 2011 Ha.. yeah sorry.. Protien rest[pinched] and yes the grains were most certainly boiled with 10g POR just to up it a bit.. Planning on dry hopping probably about 20g cascade and 20g Chinook (or some such.. not fixed yet) Thanks PB.. you know how it goes, do it all, sober up and think about it... then worry till the bloody thing comes out and is carbed up[lol] Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty A Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 [lol] [lol] [lol] I also learnt not to brew after too many beers. I added roughly 5 times the amount of caramalt to a brew once (OOOPS). Lets just say wow was that flavour strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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