Well the weather here in Minnesota was so damn nice this weekend that I decided to spend the entire Saturday in my garage to do a double decoction mashed German Alt.
Started the day off at around 8am
Protein rest
First decoction boiling away
And here goes the second
Time to sparge, it was about 2 in the afternoon by this time
Forgot to take pics during the boil, but here its chilling.
Got a new immersion chiller, upgraded from 25' 3/8 copper to 50' of 3/8 stainless, as you can see in the pic 15 min into chilling and it had already gotten down to 92*
and now the little yeasties do their thing
OG came out at 1.061, which surprised me as beersmith had my estimated OG at 1.052. Its usually pretty accurate for me so the only thing i can figure is that the decoction mash gave me a bump in efficiency.
In all it was a fun day of brewing, if any of you havent tried decoction mashing I would suggest you give it a shot.