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Originally Posted by carnevoodoo
The way I look at the parti gyle is that it is essentially a free beer. You get what comes out and it likely won't be to style, but who cares. It is free beer.
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I hate to dig up this old thread, but I am attempting to plan a partigyle for next month, and I have a few questions.
Revvy says that you must plan to double the base recipe of the original 5 gallon (in Revvy's case, 2.5 gallon) beer. This equates, roughly, to a grain bill that costs twice as much as if you were only making the one beer. How is paying twice for two beers getting free beer?
I have done the math (I think I have, at least), extrapolated from the partigyle table from Mosher, and I come up with 15 pounds of base malt (A SMaSH with maris otter, but that is besides the point). But even if I mash thin, I can only get something along the lines of 4.7 gallons preboil. Not entirely sure how this is supposed to be a big enough wort to get up to the 1.100 OG I have calculated, even without adding water or a tiny bit of dilute sparge wort.
I supposed my real question is:
If I mean to brew two five gallon batches, should I plan around a ten gallon grain bill? And if yes, how on Earth would this have been cost effective for our old timey past brethren?
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