mandoman
Well-Known Member
I'm getting ready to brew a big iipa. I have a ten gallon system and originally was going to brew a 10 gallon batch. After researching (jz, palmer, daniels) and looking at recipes I'm wondering how much wort loss I will have with so many whole and pellet hops and also loss in the secondary during dry hopping. Jamil and others suggest 'scaling up' the recipe to account for absorption but I'm wondering - does this mean scale up everything including grains and hops? basically, i've taken a hodgepodge of recipes 'scaled up' a 5 gallon batch by 20% and come up with something I think might work. ideas? opinions? suggestions?
20 lbs 2 row
2 lb munich
1.5 lb wheat
0.5 crystal 40
2 lbs corn sugar in boil
1.25 qt/gal mash = 7.5 gallons strike water at 170 for 158 mash
7.5 gallons batch sparge @ 170
1 oz chinook MH
1 oz chinook 90
2 oz magnum 90
1 oz millenium 45 (hey, i have it lying around)
1 oz cent 30
2 oz amarillo 0
1 oz cent 0
2 oz amarillo dry
3 oz cent dry
I'm using the wheat and munich to get some flavor and body as well as the high mash temp as I have no carapils or similar and have had body issues in my regular ipas
the chinook and millenium are pellets but I'll have 5 oz whole flowers in the boil. On threads around here I've seen some estimates of absorption volumes per hop ounce but don't really know what to expect. Promash estimates a pre boil volume of around 10 gallons and I expect to lose a gallon or so to the boil, maybe a half gallon to the cfc and kettle, and XX gallons to the hops but want to end up with 6 gallons or so in the primary to account for 5 oz whole dry hop.
I guess my concern is that I will leave too much in the boil, overestimating the losses, and lose some gravity points.
Thanks for any help, y'all
cb
20 lbs 2 row
2 lb munich
1.5 lb wheat
0.5 crystal 40
2 lbs corn sugar in boil
1.25 qt/gal mash = 7.5 gallons strike water at 170 for 158 mash
7.5 gallons batch sparge @ 170
1 oz chinook MH
1 oz chinook 90
2 oz magnum 90
1 oz millenium 45 (hey, i have it lying around)
1 oz cent 30
2 oz amarillo 0
1 oz cent 0
2 oz amarillo dry
3 oz cent dry
I'm using the wheat and munich to get some flavor and body as well as the high mash temp as I have no carapils or similar and have had body issues in my regular ipas
the chinook and millenium are pellets but I'll have 5 oz whole flowers in the boil. On threads around here I've seen some estimates of absorption volumes per hop ounce but don't really know what to expect. Promash estimates a pre boil volume of around 10 gallons and I expect to lose a gallon or so to the boil, maybe a half gallon to the cfc and kettle, and XX gallons to the hops but want to end up with 6 gallons or so in the primary to account for 5 oz whole dry hop.
I guess my concern is that I will leave too much in the boil, overestimating the losses, and lose some gravity points.
Thanks for any help, y'all
cb