dilbone
Well-Known Member
I've only done 2 coopers kits, one all extract non kit brew and my buddy and I decided to try BIAB.
Here's what we did thanks to much info on this site. We were going for a hoffbrau dunkel with this.
Grains/Hops:
5.5lbs Pilsner malt
3lbs Munich malt
.25lbs Chocolate malt
.25lbs Crystal 120
1oz. Tetnang 45min
.5oz. Tetnang 15min
We started with 4gallons with strike of 165F, put in grains dropped to around 154ish. Let it go for 70minutes, only dropped to 151F. Hit the heat up to 170F. Brought out the 2.5gallons in another pot for a 170F sparge for 15 minutes. We squeezed every last drop we could out of the grain bag and added the sparge water to the rest.
We had one boil over because I'm an idiot, but other than that things went extremely well.
After boil we put the entire 30 quart kettle into a rubbermaid tub full of ice water. Added a half of large bag of ice after about 15 minutes to the tub and had the temp of the wort down to 75 degrees in less than 35 minutes which I was pretty happy with especially without having an official cooling system of any kind.
Ended up with just under 4.5gal in the fermenter and an OG of 1.046 Both were a smidge lower than I had hoped, but I'll need to have the grain double milled next time I think...and I might do an additional rinse of the grain after the sparge with a gallon of 180F water.
I don't know about efficiencies or much else about the calculations, but I'm pretty happy with how the process went.
Any suggestions for next time? Thanks
Here's what we did thanks to much info on this site. We were going for a hoffbrau dunkel with this.
Grains/Hops:
5.5lbs Pilsner malt
3lbs Munich malt
.25lbs Chocolate malt
.25lbs Crystal 120
1oz. Tetnang 45min
.5oz. Tetnang 15min
We started with 4gallons with strike of 165F, put in grains dropped to around 154ish. Let it go for 70minutes, only dropped to 151F. Hit the heat up to 170F. Brought out the 2.5gallons in another pot for a 170F sparge for 15 minutes. We squeezed every last drop we could out of the grain bag and added the sparge water to the rest.
We had one boil over because I'm an idiot, but other than that things went extremely well.
After boil we put the entire 30 quart kettle into a rubbermaid tub full of ice water. Added a half of large bag of ice after about 15 minutes to the tub and had the temp of the wort down to 75 degrees in less than 35 minutes which I was pretty happy with especially without having an official cooling system of any kind.
Ended up with just under 4.5gal in the fermenter and an OG of 1.046 Both were a smidge lower than I had hoped, but I'll need to have the grain double milled next time I think...and I might do an additional rinse of the grain after the sparge with a gallon of 180F water.
I don't know about efficiencies or much else about the calculations, but I'm pretty happy with how the process went.
Any suggestions for next time? Thanks