Brew Day - September 9, 2011

Brewing again. It has been awhile. I am back to brewing my house ale which has turned out to be my best beer. I hope to get a few kegs of this brewed before getting into some winter brews.

15 Gallons

22 lbs. Canada Malt
2 lbs. Munich malt
1 lb. Crystal 10L
1 lb. Carapils
80g Hallertauer - 60 min.
50g Nottingham

My efficiency has gone from 76% to 63%. When I crush my grains, it seems that the 2 row is just basically falling through the mill. Okay, the settings were changed. Nope, same settings. However, when I grind my specialty malts, I have to really hang on the drill to keep it from spinning in my hand. So, I need to change the settings for the Canada malt only. They are smaller than they were last year. More info on this later. I raised my grain mill up a notch. I got 79% efficiency, so as long as I didn't get too much astrigency. Later...

O.G. - 1.040
F.G. - 1.010
% - 4
SRM - 6
BU - 20
EFFICIENCY - 63%