thomasdt12
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This is a summary - good for my memory but others may find it useful (or maybe humorous) :
I picked up an inexpensive Stout all-grain kit and thought I would try my my hand at Brew In a Bag. I filled my 10 Gallon pot with 7.25 Gallons water - I went with this amount based solely on the size of my kettle. My propane burner is a 200K BTU beast, so I was worried about the bag. Sure enough, as I took the temperature up - I then attached the bag at around 150 degrees. The flames or just the handle temperature alone caused the nylon bag to start to disintegrate. Luckily I picked up 2 bags when I ordered.
I removed the bag, and took the water to 180 degrees - shutting flame down to a minimum and replacing bag (first putting cold rags on the handles). Added all 10.5 lbs grain and stirred. Temperature came down to ~165, so I stirred and kept the top off until hitting closer to 155. At that point, I covered and checked/stirred on it every 10-15 minutes.
After 90 minutes, I pulled the bag out of the wort. Quickly move it onto an upside down colander put in a bottling bucket. Squeezed the crap out of the bag (with my hands), getting almost a gallon additional wort out. I then added this back into the main wort. I decided to test gravity, getting 1.020 but then realizing the wort was still 130-140 degrees. As it cooled it came up to 1.031, but then I thought - "I didn't even start a boil yet". I had close to 5.5 gallons water which surprised me - probably because it was covered most of the time (I should of added here I think, to bring it to 6 Gallons or so).
So, onto the boil. Added bittering hops, boiled. Added flavoring hops with ~15 minutes left. Stopped flame, put in wort chiller to bring down temp. At ~80 degrees, tested OG - almost 1.050 which I thought was very good as recipe called for 1.045 at 75% efficiency but it was at 4.5 gallons at this point.
Racked to the primary, and added 1/2 gallon water (never did that but thought it would be alright with the gravity where it was). No idea how this will turn out, but being my 3rd beer (1st AG after 2 extracts) I have high hopes.
I picked up an inexpensive Stout all-grain kit and thought I would try my my hand at Brew In a Bag. I filled my 10 Gallon pot with 7.25 Gallons water - I went with this amount based solely on the size of my kettle. My propane burner is a 200K BTU beast, so I was worried about the bag. Sure enough, as I took the temperature up - I then attached the bag at around 150 degrees. The flames or just the handle temperature alone caused the nylon bag to start to disintegrate. Luckily I picked up 2 bags when I ordered.
I removed the bag, and took the water to 180 degrees - shutting flame down to a minimum and replacing bag (first putting cold rags on the handles). Added all 10.5 lbs grain and stirred. Temperature came down to ~165, so I stirred and kept the top off until hitting closer to 155. At that point, I covered and checked/stirred on it every 10-15 minutes.
After 90 minutes, I pulled the bag out of the wort. Quickly move it onto an upside down colander put in a bottling bucket. Squeezed the crap out of the bag (with my hands), getting almost a gallon additional wort out. I then added this back into the main wort. I decided to test gravity, getting 1.020 but then realizing the wort was still 130-140 degrees. As it cooled it came up to 1.031, but then I thought - "I didn't even start a boil yet". I had close to 5.5 gallons water which surprised me - probably because it was covered most of the time (I should of added here I think, to bring it to 6 Gallons or so).
So, onto the boil. Added bittering hops, boiled. Added flavoring hops with ~15 minutes left. Stopped flame, put in wort chiller to bring down temp. At ~80 degrees, tested OG - almost 1.050 which I thought was very good as recipe called for 1.045 at 75% efficiency but it was at 4.5 gallons at this point.
Racked to the primary, and added 1/2 gallon water (never did that but thought it would be alright with the gravity where it was). No idea how this will turn out, but being my 3rd beer (1st AG after 2 extracts) I have high hopes.