SharpsRifle
Grandmaster Brewer
Howdy.
I'm getting ready to jump into all grain in the next couple weeks.
The gear I didn't have from extract brewing is either here or on it' way.
I'll be picking up grains as soon as I get into the city and then I'm going to give it my best effort.
I'm not sure if I'm going to go for a simple pale ale for my first batch or if maybe I'll try a Black Butte or Guinness clone. I'm not a huge Guinness fan, but I think it's almost a very good beer and could be there with a little work.
I loaded up beersmith and I've got a couple Black Butte recipies that look worth trying so I may go that way.
My starting equipment is going to be an assortment of stainless pots, up to 5 gallons, a 10 gallon water cooler type mash tun, 185k BTU burner, a digital scale for grain measuring, and all the stuff you would have for a decent extract brewing setup.
Next purchase will probably be a grain mill.
I'm just planning on batch sparging for now but may end up getting a sparge arm later if I learn that I need it.
Should be fun. My hope is that I can learn enough to make interesting new beers within the next few months.
I was trying to figure out how to setup beersmith for my tun so that I can hit the mark on mash temp's, but I see that's been a real problem for a lot of people.
I may be askig a few questios on here. Looks like with a search most of the good questions have been answered though.
David
I'm getting ready to jump into all grain in the next couple weeks.
The gear I didn't have from extract brewing is either here or on it' way.
I'll be picking up grains as soon as I get into the city and then I'm going to give it my best effort.
I'm not sure if I'm going to go for a simple pale ale for my first batch or if maybe I'll try a Black Butte or Guinness clone. I'm not a huge Guinness fan, but I think it's almost a very good beer and could be there with a little work.
I loaded up beersmith and I've got a couple Black Butte recipies that look worth trying so I may go that way.
My starting equipment is going to be an assortment of stainless pots, up to 5 gallons, a 10 gallon water cooler type mash tun, 185k BTU burner, a digital scale for grain measuring, and all the stuff you would have for a decent extract brewing setup.
Next purchase will probably be a grain mill.
I'm just planning on batch sparging for now but may end up getting a sparge arm later if I learn that I need it.
Should be fun. My hope is that I can learn enough to make interesting new beers within the next few months.
I was trying to figure out how to setup beersmith for my tun so that I can hit the mark on mash temp's, but I see that's been a real problem for a lot of people.
I may be askig a few questios on here. Looks like with a search most of the good questions have been answered though.
David