Perfect brewday?

[boingy]

Well, the perfect brewday is impossible but today I came close. Mashed in at 6.30am, hit the target temp without fuss, collected the correct amount of wort at the predicted gravity. Smooth boil, exact target quantity into the FV at the target gravity. I don't think I've ever done that before. Yeast pitched and all cleaned up by about 12.15 pm.

Yeast is already munching away with a nice healthy head.

It's an easy game when it all goes right.

Let's hope I like amber malt. It's a new one for me.

[Redimpz]

Amber malt? You'll love it, after all it'll be beer.

[Scott-ayling]

Think ive also perfected my brewday now. What i do now is when in from work after a night shift i get the mash on and wrap up till i wake up usually about 5 hours later.Then i sparge and get the boil on and fire into a no chill cube and leave to cool till the next morning . Then when i get in from work i aerate the wort by pouring from a height into FV then pitch my yeast and fire into fermentation fridge. I feel splitting the brewday up into small sections makes it a lot easier.

[darkonnis]

Strangely, my only ever perfect brewday was the first one. On target for both gravities, nice boil, right amount near enough. Now I either smash my predicted efficiency which sounds good but when you want a 3.8% session ale and come out at 5%+ its a bit annoying, or I'm low on amount of wort.
Hope you wrote down how much water you used as you'll be able to replicate that perfection for other brews, my biggest problem I think, is that i constantly change my kit!

[Thorbz]

My only " perfect " brewday was my first as well. Ever since either the gravity or volumes have been slightly off.

I have a love/hate relationship with amber malt, although I'm starting to think it's all how it's used. I find it a bit sharp/dry early on, but it does mellow nicely. I'm not sure if using a yeast which finishes fairly dry emphasizes this, and I intend to try WLP002 in the future. I find about 100g in 23L plenty. I like pairing it with dark crystal malt for a nice Autumnal bitter.

[zgoda]

I learned to trust my initial calculations, and then to follow the amounts of grain, water and hops. Since then all my brewdays are perfect in the sense I'm getting expected volumes and gravities.

[Rookie]

Perfect brewday?
One without a trip to the hospital.

[Capped]

Well, the perfect brewday is impossible but today I came close.

It'll end up infected...

[Subsonic]

I used up the last of my malt a few months back and had no crystal so used 5% Amber malt with plain old malt and was pretty worried about how it would come out, 5% being the max recommended, and lots of concern about biscuit flavours etc. I am sitting having a pint now (I know its early but hey ho) and it came out very good indeed. It really mellowed, the first keg was not as good as the second. But yeah, it will probably get infected lol

[DustyDog]

Having only done 2 All grain brews, (third one coming up next week) my idea at the moment of an perfect brewday is when i do not balls anything up during my mash etc and of course having a pint whilst i'm brewing. Always enjoy brewdays.