brew no9.
made the jump to all grain yesterday. made a plan and a step by step walk through of what i was going to do. estimated 3 hours.... took 6.
i had a few unexspected things happen and just wanted someones oppinion.
firstly the grain behaved totaly difforent to water in terms of heat, almost like insulation the temp got up to 70degrees in some places and 64 in otheres, and this was with vigourus stirring to keep it all mixed will this be ok or is this a problem i need to adresss in future brews, eg. make a better heat spreadder for the bottom of the pan.
secondly, i got some iodine to check the starch conversion but forgott to check it at blast off to get a refrense, i checked it at about 30mins in and it seemed to go red/brown, can all the starches be converted this fast?.
thirdly wat the f$#k id that brown skum all about???? lol
and i would just like to say that i have become a bet more relaxed as far as sanitatin goes in respect to my paranoid beginner self (not to say i sanitise less but i just worry less), i just was horrified to think of the much incresed thrett to infection from all graining
ps smells loverly.