(Include any important notes from brew day until tasting)
Not my finest hour of brewing but I think that the resulting beer is still going to be very tasty after an intial wort sampling post cool down. Hit pretty close to strike temp for my wheat protein rest at 121. Heated up 5 qts of water and added in. Only hit 139 where I thought I would be at single step infusion temp of 152. Oops. No problem, I'll do a 50-60-70 mash. Heated up some more water to raise up to 158, only got to 156. Drew off one gallon of wort and heated to 170 degrees for mashout. Did a stupid thing at that point and decided that, since I had 3.5 gallons of runoff and needed 4.5 for my boil, I just added one gallon of water to the brewpot instead of taking the time to heat another gallon or so of sparge water. Killed my final gravity, which should have been in the 1.056 range. wound up at 1.043 with my diluted wort. Cooled down to 75 F and pitched my starter slurry of weiheinstephan yeast and put in the fridge at a temp of 62F. Not quite how I pictured the day going but I do believe I will wind up with a nice refreshing sessionable beer for the summer. Not bad after all.
Water Infusion
Brew Session Specific
6.8
lbkg
70
°FC
152
°FC
1.5
qt/lbl/kg
60
min.
3.25
galsliters
Equipment Profile
0.15
gals/lbliters/kg
0.01
gals/lbliters/kg
°FC
0.25
galsliters
0.5
galsliters
1
gals/hourliters/hour
0.2
galsliters
Calculated Totals
6.04
galsliters
3.09
galsliters
2.80
galsliters
161.96
°FC
161.96
°FC
1.78
galsliters
3.24
galsliters
4.95
galsliters
Mash / Boil
Mash
PH
152
°FC
152
°FC
35
minutes
Boil
1.034 (estimated)
4.95
gallonsliters4.95 (gallonsliters estimated)
60
minutesminutes(60 minutes estimated)
3.25
galsliters
Gravity Estimates
Based on boiling 4.95gallonsliters at 1.034 for 60 minutes, this will decrease your wort by 1.00gallonsliters, bringing your after boil OG to 1.041.
You wanted an OG of 1.043. It looks like it will be under.