{"id":4929,"date":"2025-03-09T08:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtybucketbrewing.com\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2025-04-12T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T23:46:09","slug":"oktoberfest-brew-day-2-16-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtybucketbrewing.com\/?p=4929","title":{"rendered":"Oktoberfest Brew Day 2-16-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wow its been a crazy winter and a long story but I’m glad to get back brewing and what better way to kick off a brew session with a 90 minute boil and one of my favorite beers, My Oktoberfest. Well as I normally do I pulled the water the day before and got my grains all weighted out and milled. Added in the salts and setup the Anvil to 152F(66.6C) and to start at 05:00 so when I wake up and ready to brew the water will be at temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@06:14 the water was at 140F(60C) and didn’t want to wait any longer to added in the grains and started the pump. @06:22 finally hit the 152F(66.6C). @06:44 I stopped the pump and gave the grain bed a good stir and put the pump back on. With 10 minutes left in the mash I turned the Anvil up to 168F(75.5C) and 100% power to mash out. Plus helps me get to the boil temperature quicker. @7:21 hit the 168F(75.5C) and let sit there for a few minutes before pulling the grain basket and turning the Anvil up to 100% and 212F(100C). While awaiting the boil I pulled a gravity sample of 1.040SG and cleaned up what I could. @8:10 hit a boil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@ the start of the boil there wasn’t much to do as there is a 90 minute boil and the first addition isn’t until 60 minutes left. At the 60 minute left mark I added in hop addition and with about 15 minutes left in the boil I added in the wort chiller. with 10 minutes left add in the rest of the hops and with 5 minutes left added in the yeast nutrient and Irish Moss. At the end of the boil took a gravity of 1.046SG. and started to chill the work. @09:46 the wort was down to 123F(50.5C).@09:56 was down to 76F(24.4) and I transferred over to the fermentor. Pitched the yeast and placed in my keezer set to 54F(12.2C) All cleaned up by 10:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@07:15 on March 9th after a week of slowly dropping the temperature of the beer to cold crash it down to 40F(4.44C) and got a gravity reading of 1.009 SG giving me about 4.86% beer which is right where I like it. Transferred over to a keg to carbonate up. Cleaned up equipment and wait a few weeks to test 8) Took a very small sample, and was pretty tasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wow its been a crazy winter and a long story but I’m glad to get back brewing and what better way to kick off a brew session with a 90 minute boil and one of my favorite beers, My Oktoberfest. Well as I normally do I pulled the water the day before and got my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brewing-sessions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dirtybucketbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pxl_20250309_1202309313866976139893161380.jpg?fit=1506%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3184,"url":"https:\/\/dirtybucketbrewing.com\/?p=3184","url_meta":{"origin":4929,"position":0},"title":"Dirty Bucket Oktoberfest —- Maybe!! Brew day 3-4-23","author":"flintman","date":"March 4, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"So its been a while since I have brewed and man am I itching. 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