bergman1118
Well-Known Member
Ok.. here's what I'm trying to do:
I want to make 2 beers from the same grain bill. One, a 5 gallon batch of wheat ale (haven't decided if it will be a hefe, american, etc.), and the other a 3 gallon batch of Berliner Weisse. Normally, this would be easy, but the intended OG of my Berliner Weisse will be about .15 - .2 gravity points lower than the wheat ale (~1.035ish for the Berliner, ~1.050ish for the wheat ale). I want to maximize my brew day and pull these both off on the same day, but I'm having trouble definitively picturing how I would do this.
The issue is with the sparge - would I run off the first runnings (high SG) into one BK (for the wheat ale), and then once I hit about 1.040ish start running into a second BK (for the Berliner Weisse) until I hit ~3.5 gallons of wort? This sounds... doable but very inaccurate, and I can see myself completely missing my target OGs and then having to mix the 2 worts for a long time until I hit the targets..
Has anybody out there done something similar that could give me some advice to achieve my goal?
I want to make 2 beers from the same grain bill. One, a 5 gallon batch of wheat ale (haven't decided if it will be a hefe, american, etc.), and the other a 3 gallon batch of Berliner Weisse. Normally, this would be easy, but the intended OG of my Berliner Weisse will be about .15 - .2 gravity points lower than the wheat ale (~1.035ish for the Berliner, ~1.050ish for the wheat ale). I want to maximize my brew day and pull these both off on the same day, but I'm having trouble definitively picturing how I would do this.
The issue is with the sparge - would I run off the first runnings (high SG) into one BK (for the wheat ale), and then once I hit about 1.040ish start running into a second BK (for the Berliner Weisse) until I hit ~3.5 gallons of wort? This sounds... doable but very inaccurate, and I can see myself completely missing my target OGs and then having to mix the 2 worts for a long time until I hit the targets..
Has anybody out there done something similar that could give me some advice to achieve my goal?