my wife may very well kill me!
here is the plan for the actual brew day:
- get about 4 gallons (stovetop BIAB here) heating up while I measure and crush my grains
- dough in and mash for 25 minutes while boiling a standard size teapot's worth of water
- mix that in and faux mash out for like 5 minutes while I measure out hop additions and heat up a little more water to about 165
- pull out the grain bag, rinse it with the 165 water, then let it drip out while the wort comes to a boil
- FWH and boil for 30 minutes
- cool with my immersion chiller for a few minutes (ground water temps are still around 78) to at least get under 100
- dump that on some ice cubes in the bucket to, hopefully, get the temp down in to the 70s
- pitch yeast and aerate
- clean up
in my head, I pull this off in about 2 hours. this is based on reading articles at brulosophy, BYO, and beersmith...and adapted to give a little more time at each step because I can't bring myself to cut corners more than this!
oh here you go for reference sake in a 4 gallon batch:
6 pounds pils malt (yup...PILS malt!)
1/2 lb wheat
1/4 c-75
FWH (30 min) - 1/2 oz Apollo
20 min - 1/2 oz Saphir and 1/4 Cascade
7 min - 1/4 oz each of Saphir and Cascade
should be roughly 5% abv and nearly 30 IBU for a nice golden APA
so am I crazy or what?
