Alright so I am jumping ship from the extract and specialty grains to the partial mash and all grain BIAB but have a question about water volumes. I have done 6 extract brews that have all turned out great but like the flexibility of the more complex methods and the cheaper costs.
I have been reading everything I can find on techniques for both and see different info about sparge water volumes. I would like to do a full boil to avoid top off water if possible because no matter what I read it sounds like top off water is a bad idea for the quality of beer.
Do i need to sparge with the amount of water needed to get to my full volume after the mash or do I sparge with a specific calculated volume based on grain bill and add the rest of the water volume to the wort before boil, or something completely different?
I am doing 5 gallon (post fermentation) batches (6.5 gallon fermenter) so I am shooting for around 6.5-7 gallon boil volume in my 32qt turkey fryer pot with an immersion chiller for cooling.
The partial mash recipes I am doing are the following:
christmas ale:
6.00 lb Light DME
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 7.50 %
1.00 lb Wheat Malt, Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 7.50 %
0.50 lb Special Roast (50.0 SRM) Grain 3.75 %
0.08 lb Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 0.60 %
2.75 oz Hallertauer [4.80 %] (60 min) Hops 34.6 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [6.30 %] (10 min) Hops 3.0 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [7.50 %] (5 min) Hops 2.0 IBU
1.25 oz Ginger Root (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
1.50 tsp Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
1.75 lb Honey (1.0 SRM) Sugar 13.13 %
1 Pkgs London Ale (Wyeast Labs #1028)
IPA:
http://hopville.com/recipe/1388832/imperial-ipa-recipes/blitzkrieg-hop
All-grain BIAB is a left hand milk stout clone from austin homebrew that is going to turn into an irish car bomb stout.
Any help is much appreciated, please dont kill the rookie for asking rookie questions.
I have been reading everything I can find on techniques for both and see different info about sparge water volumes. I would like to do a full boil to avoid top off water if possible because no matter what I read it sounds like top off water is a bad idea for the quality of beer.
Do i need to sparge with the amount of water needed to get to my full volume after the mash or do I sparge with a specific calculated volume based on grain bill and add the rest of the water volume to the wort before boil, or something completely different?
I am doing 5 gallon (post fermentation) batches (6.5 gallon fermenter) so I am shooting for around 6.5-7 gallon boil volume in my 32qt turkey fryer pot with an immersion chiller for cooling.
The partial mash recipes I am doing are the following:
christmas ale:
6.00 lb Light DME
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 7.50 %
1.00 lb Wheat Malt, Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 7.50 %
0.50 lb Special Roast (50.0 SRM) Grain 3.75 %
0.08 lb Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 0.60 %
2.75 oz Hallertauer [4.80 %] (60 min) Hops 34.6 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [6.30 %] (10 min) Hops 3.0 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [7.50 %] (5 min) Hops 2.0 IBU
1.25 oz Ginger Root (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
1.50 tsp Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
1.75 lb Honey (1.0 SRM) Sugar 13.13 %
1 Pkgs London Ale (Wyeast Labs #1028)
IPA:
http://hopville.com/recipe/1388832/imperial-ipa-recipes/blitzkrieg-hop
All-grain BIAB is a left hand milk stout clone from austin homebrew that is going to turn into an irish car bomb stout.
Any help is much appreciated, please dont kill the rookie for asking rookie questions.