I normally brew IPAs/Ales. I am planning to brew my first Stout tomorrow ----- it will be based on BYO's recipe for Founder's Breakfast Stout (recipe below).
BYO recommends 3.75 gallons of mash water -- but the recipe has about 18 lbs of grain. This seems too little.
I wanted to do a 10.50 gallon batch tomorrow -- but @ 36 lbs of grain I'll be looking at 11.7 gal of mash water (assuming 1.30 quarts per lb of grain) -- too much volume for my 15.5 keg/MLT to handle and leaving me little water sparge with.
Long story short -- is my setup to small to double this batch -- or am I over calculating the necessary mash water volume.
cheers.
5.5 gallon recipe:
13.2 lbs 2-row pale malt
22 ozs flaked oats
1 lb Chocolate malt (350 L)
12 ozs roast barley malt (450 L)
9 ozs debittered black malt
7 ozs crystal malt (120 L)
2 ozs ground Sumatran coffee (cold brewed)
2 ozs ground Kona coffee (cold brewed)
2.5 ozs dark bittersweet bakers chocolate
1.5 ozs unsweetened chocolate baking nibs
14.3 AAU Nugget pellet hops 60 min (1 oz @ 13% AA)
2.5 AAU Willamette pellet hops 30 min (1/2 oz @ 5% AA)
2.5 AAU Willamette pellet hops 0 min
1/2 tsp yeast nutrient 15 min
1/2 tsp Irish moss 15 min
WLP 001 or Wyeast 1056
OG 1.078 FG 1.020 ABV 7.5%
BYO recommends 3.75 gallons of mash water -- but the recipe has about 18 lbs of grain. This seems too little.
I wanted to do a 10.50 gallon batch tomorrow -- but @ 36 lbs of grain I'll be looking at 11.7 gal of mash water (assuming 1.30 quarts per lb of grain) -- too much volume for my 15.5 keg/MLT to handle and leaving me little water sparge with.
Long story short -- is my setup to small to double this batch -- or am I over calculating the necessary mash water volume.
cheers.
5.5 gallon recipe:
13.2 lbs 2-row pale malt
22 ozs flaked oats
1 lb Chocolate malt (350 L)
12 ozs roast barley malt (450 L)
9 ozs debittered black malt
7 ozs crystal malt (120 L)
2 ozs ground Sumatran coffee (cold brewed)
2 ozs ground Kona coffee (cold brewed)
2.5 ozs dark bittersweet bakers chocolate
1.5 ozs unsweetened chocolate baking nibs
14.3 AAU Nugget pellet hops 60 min (1 oz @ 13% AA)
2.5 AAU Willamette pellet hops 30 min (1/2 oz @ 5% AA)
2.5 AAU Willamette pellet hops 0 min
1/2 tsp yeast nutrient 15 min
1/2 tsp Irish moss 15 min
WLP 001 or Wyeast 1056
OG 1.078 FG 1.020 ABV 7.5%
