Ambassador – stuck mash

Plan

• Make a chocolatey, creamy, hazelnutty porter.

Graph

Actual Figures

Field	Target	Actual
OG	1.048	1.047
FG	1.015	1.014
ABV	4.3%	4.3%

Lessons

• Despite good figures, the mash got stuck twice.
• Allowed a 10 minute dough in, then stopped mash to stir every 20 minutes.
• Despite low mash flow the grain sill compressed.
• Time for a new mash process:
  • No top plate
  • continuous sparge spray
  • direct access to stirring
• I’ve bought a new sparging spray and connecting hose to see if this improve things.
• I also got a washing sprinkler to plug into the same hose.
• I also got a whirlpool arm to try and clear the beer before fermenting.
• I need to do another brew so to play with my new toys.
• If I allow the hose to go directly into the grain and turn it off then it sucks grain into the pump that requires an hour of disassembly and cleaning.