{"id":5119,"date":"2025-07-07T19:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtybucketbrewing.com\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:36:29","slug":"porter-brew-day-6-26-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtybucketbrewing.com\/?p=5119","title":{"rendered":"Porter Brew Day 6-26-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This started a few days ago when I collected the water. I was planning on brewing on Tuesday but way to hot and was afraid I would loose power. Ended up keeping the water for a few days and fired up the Anvil today at 05:15 and set the timer. When I got home at 15:10 i milled the grains and put in the Anvil at 154F(67.7C) and started the pump and timer. I left the darker grains out for now. Will add in later. 15 minutes into the mash I added in the lighter specialty grains and at 30 minutes added in the dark ones and gave the grain bed a good stir. With about 5 minutes left in the mash I turned the Anvil to 167F(75C) to mash out. I only do it was it gets me closer to the boil, not sure if its a benefit. Just speeds up the process. Pulled the grain basket and let it drain while I crank the Anvil up to 212F(100C) Pulled a gravity sample of 1.043SG. Which is low, I did test the temperature while it was mashing and the temperature was dead on so that is good. I need to work on that and figure out what is going on with my mash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@17:25 the boil started and I added in the hops but not into the basket right into the entire wort. Just because its not a lot. I feel I don’t have a lot of bitterness in my beers sometimes when I expect it. See what happens did all the hops this way, no spider this time. Started chilled at the end of the boil and @18:30 I was down to 143F(61.6C) @ 18:43 the wort was down to 88F(31C). @18:46 was down to 84(28.8C). I definitely have warm ground water. @18:53 pitched the yeast at 72F(22.2C) into my chest freezer for 65F(18.3C) @19:06 all cleaned up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@16:40 on July 7th I started to transferred over to the keg, took a sample at the end of 1.010SG which puts this brew at 4.59%ABV. not too bad. Placed the keg in my refrigerator to carbonate up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This started a few days ago when I collected the water. I was planning on brewing on Tuesday but way to hot and was afraid I would loose power. Ended up keeping the water for a few days and fired up the Anvil today at 05:15 and set the timer. 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