Short & Shoddy | My 1 Hour All Grain Brew Day

On average, I brew a couple batches every other week, all of which are for xBmts or The Hop Chronicles. A recent Saturday was one of these days, I brewed two 5 gallon batches simultaneously for a yet to be published xBmt. The next morning, I woke up early with my kids, made some breakfast, and did a few normal weekend chores. Right after lunch, my wife mentioned she had some errands to run, said she’d be out for a couple hours and would take my oldest daughter. My 2 year-old was napping at this point and my son wanted to ride his bike. That’s when the idea to try something I’d been thinking about for awhile struck– brew an all grain batch in as little time as possible. I set a goal for myself to be finished by the time my wife returned home, which she estimated would be approximately 2 hours. What follows is an account of how it went down, from grain to glass.

As my wife was prepping to leave, right about the time this brilliant idea came to me, I opened up BeerSmith and threw together a very simple SMaSH recipe. Inspired by the latest boil length xBmt findings, I chose to use some 2 year old German Pils malt I found sitting in the bottom of a bucket earlier that weekend. To that, I added Amarillo hops from the 2013 crop I’d been avoiding and a pack of Mangrove Jacks West Coast Yeast that expired nearly a year prior. This was bound to be glorious.

Short & Shoddy SMaSH 

Batch Size	Boil Time	IBU	SRM	OG	FG	ABV
1.75	15 min	65	 11.6	1.040 SG	1.009 SG	4.0 %

Fermentables

Name	Amount	%
2 year old Weyermann German Pils Malt(1.6L)	3 lbs	100

Hops

Name	Amt/IBU	Time	Use	Form	Alpha %
Amarillo	20 g/19.4 IBU	First Wort Hop – 15 minutes	FWH	Pellet	 8.2
Amarillo	35 g/19.3 IBU	1 minute	Boil	Pellet	 8.2
Amarillo	40g	Dryhop 4 Days	Dry Hop	Pellet	 8.2

Yeast

Name	Lab	Attenuation	Ferm Temp
M44 West Coast Yeast (exp. 12/2014)	Mangrove Jacks	73%	66°F

I chose to use the BIAB method for this project and collected the full volume of water, unfiltered and untreated, as my wife pulled out of the garage.

Start time: 10:05 AM

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