Wellsy wrote:Hey ruddy crazy what recipe did you use for your single malt runs
Was it the one in tried and proven ?
G'day Wellsy,
I malted 5 kg's of barely myself and just to be sure I had the D.P. I went and bought a kilo of Joe white Malt and used this link
https://www.brewersfriend.com/mash/ to work out the strike water temp. I used my 50 litre keg mashtun with a 2 ring burner under it and hooked up the thermocouple to my didgital display for the temp reading. My mashtun has a 1-1/2" triclamp at the base of the keg and I drilled and tapped a 1/8" bsp thread to suit the thermocouple.
Once the water was heated to strike temp I put all of the crushed malt in and used my paint stirrer (cleaned first of course) to give the wash a good mixing then put a sleeping blanket around the mashtun. Every 15 minutes or so I would give it a good stir and then started using my refractometer to see if the conversion had started which it was :happy-partydance: . Several times I had to take the sleeping blanket off to raise the temp and kept checking the SG.
After about 3 hours I did a iodine test and it came out the conversion had finished.
So this was my first AG successful run and I thought just doing a single malt would of been the easiest which it was.
Now as I only used 20 litres I gave it a sugar bump to get the volume up to suit my 60 litre fermenter and I did several generation sugar bumps where first the spent grain was removed and 5kg's of cracked corn was put in. then for the next generation after the spent grain was removed 5kg's of cracked barely was thrown in.
So now got 4 litres of the first run, 5 litres each on the second and third runs aging, now I did have enough wash left over I did a mix of feints and the wash and put 3-1/2 litres down on oak.
Having drams of this stuff and the taste justs better every time so I decanted a bottle using all 4 ageing jugs and that blend is my goto shed dram.
Cheers Bryan