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McCuckerson · 01-12-2011, 12:13 AM

Here's the plan: I'm gonna brew 10 gallons of CB this weekend. 5 gallons will get nottingham, the other 5 will go on a Bavarian Lager cake. I have a funny feeling that this recipe will kick arss as a lager. Has anyone ever done it?

timbudtwo · 01-12-2011, 01:26 AM

BIAB and sat in a bottle for 3 weeks. Great flavor!
Would brew again with a bit more carapils

The color on my photo is much darker that the actual brew is. Quite deceiving.

**brettwasbtd** · 01-12-2011, 01:59 AM

After sitting in the fridge for a week, this thing is crystal clear! Look at these pictures! you can see my buddies face through it!

txinga · 01-12-2011, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by timbudtwo

BIAB and sat in a bottle for 3 weeks. Great flavor!
Would brew again with a bit more carapils

The color on my photo is much darker that the actual brew is. Quite deceiving.

timbudtwo, could you share your BIAB procedure for this brew? I have the ingredients ready to go. I have paint bags from Lowes and a 5 gallon pot. This would be my first BIAB / All Grain of any kind.

Thanks,

Txinga

timbudtwo · 01-12-2011, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by txinga

timbudtwo, could you share your BIAB procedure for this brew? I have the ingredients ready to go. I have paint bags from Lowes and a 5 gallon pot. This would be my first BIAB / All Grain of any kind.

Thanks,

Txinga

Was my first all grain / BIAB too.
First, I lined my brew pot with my paint liners (I used two just in case.) My brew pot is 7 gallons so I was able to put in almost 5 gallons. I had 6 gallons measured out because I lose about 1 gallon during my boil.

Anyway,
1. Lined the pot
2. Threw in grain
3. Filled with water
4. Brought up to 150 (I was about 149-153 for the entire hour of mash)
During the mash I insulated the pot with a couple towels to keep the heat in. I left a very small hole in the top so that I could have a digital thermometer sitting in the top so I could watch the temp.
5. Stirred about every 5-10 minutes
6. Once mash was done I pulled the bag out and set it in the bucket that had the rest of my water in it. Sparged in that. And by sparge I mean I let that sit till it wasn't piping hot and then had a buddy hold the bag and I squeezed out as much yums from it as I could. (http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/squeezing-grain-bag-bad-175179/index2.html#post2029310) Then I threw all that into the brew pot.

7. Proceed with recipe as normal.

My insulated brewpot, hooked up to my grills NG line.

**Danbreeze** · 01-12-2011, 07:10 PM

Thank you Beermuncher for this recipe! I had been trying to decide what to brew my little brother for his birthday party and this seems like a winner. For some reason, all of my other beers seem to scare his friends

**JonW** · 01-12-2011, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Danbreeze

Thank you Beermuncher for this recipe! I had been trying to decide what to brew my little brother for his birthday party and this seems like a winner. For some reason, all of my other beers seem to scare his friends

The way you phrase this makes it sound like your little brother and his friends are teenagers.

**RugenBrau** · 01-13-2011, 02:05 AM

timbudtwo,
Did you increase the grainbill for the BIAB method? If so, by how much?

Fourtytwo · 01-14-2011, 05:26 AM

Just knocked out 24 more gallons of this last weekend on a marathon, 2 batch 11 hour brewday. Weirdest thing too, out of the 4 fermenters I filled up, one of them took off before the others and it's the only one that all the junk dropped to the bottom already but the airlock is still bubbling? I used safale 04 on all of them too, but from 2 different homebrew stores. Nice to create 200+ beers in one day!

I'll drink the suspicious one first, as an example to the others...

**RugenBrau** · 01-16-2011, 07:06 PM

In the process of making this now and noticed that I had Windsor yeast instead of nottingham. Would Safale SO 5 be ok?