spacey
Active Member
First All Grain Brewing Mistake:
My first all grain brewing day was yesterday - Northern Brewer's "Summer Squeeze Lemon Shandy" (9.5 pounds of grain)
I misunderstood the instructions from Northern Brewer and instead of pouring 1 gallon of 170F water into the mash tun for batch sparging, I poured the entire 5 gallons of sparge water (at 170F) into the mash tun. The 10 gallon mash tun was nearly full at this point, so I batch sparged for 20 minutes and then transferred the fluids into the brew kettle and continuted the hour long boil normally. I never used my upper container to slowly circulate hot water into the mash tun.
Is the batch ruined, or will I maybe just have some off flavors?
My first all grain brewing day was yesterday - Northern Brewer's "Summer Squeeze Lemon Shandy" (9.5 pounds of grain)
I misunderstood the instructions from Northern Brewer and instead of pouring 1 gallon of 170F water into the mash tun for batch sparging, I poured the entire 5 gallons of sparge water (at 170F) into the mash tun. The 10 gallon mash tun was nearly full at this point, so I batch sparged for 20 minutes and then transferred the fluids into the brew kettle and continuted the hour long boil normally. I never used my upper container to slowly circulate hot water into the mash tun.
Is the batch ruined, or will I maybe just have some off flavors?