Brewing your first all grain batch of beer

The day has come my friends. This coming Saturday I will be brewing my first all grain batch of beer. The mash tun will be completed today. The grains have been purchased, the time has been DayTimered, and it will happen.

This inaugural batch will be an american amber. 8lbs of 2 row pale malt, 1lb of caramunich, 1lb of munich. I will be using centennial hops that a friend and I grew for flavoring, don't know yet what I am going to be using for bittering. I will be using 2 wyeast 1056 or equivalent starters in fermentation. I am looking for a big beer out of this batch.

More when it happens. Wish me luck.

L8R.