To start off the recipe is as follows:
5 pounds sorghum syrup
1 pound malted buckwheat
.5 pound honey
.5 oz northern brewer hops @10.5 AA (60 min)
.75 oz northern brewer hops @10.5 AA (15 min)
.75 oz northern brewer hops @ 10.5 AA (1 min)
Yeast is white labs San Fran lager yeast (wlp810)
To make sure the yeast gets a good start I'm using two tubes.
I started a few days ago by soaking the buckwheat in water for 24 hours and rinsing every 8 hours. Once the buckwheat had soaked up a bunch of water I let them sit in a cool dark area of the house with just a splash of water on them. I continued to rinse every 8 hours until the buckwheat sprouted. This took about three days. This morning I rinsed an drained the buckwheat again and place on a cookie sheet in the oven at 170 f for about 2 1/2 hours. The buckwheat was mostly dry at this point so I turned up the heat to 200 for 1 hour to begin malting. Then I turned the stove up to 270 to malt for 90 mins.
This is how they came out:
From here it's on to the brewing. I put 6.5 gallons of water in my keg turned into a brew kettle (keggle) and brought the temp up to 150. It's a partial mash brew so I steeped the buckwheat for 30 min and then remved them and brought the wort to a boil. When it was near a boil I added roughly 5 pounds of the sorghum syrup and the first hop addition.
At the 15 min mark I added the next round of hops and put the chiller in to steralize. I added the honey with ten minutes to go and added the last hop addition before flame out.
The chiller worked really well today since it's pretty cold outside. I still want to get a new chiller soon though. I pitched the yeast at 70 f and made sure to oxygenate the wort. Here is the final product:
Next week I'll move it to the secondary and then in two weeks it will be ready to carbonate and of course drink!
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