Psylocide
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Not sure if I amused, impressed, or saddened...
Yeah... but I could get 2 oz of hops for the cost of the tube....
I understand.
Not sure if I amused, impressed, or saddened...
Haha yeah but he won't bat an eye at dropping $500 on car parts but hey its priorities right? lol
Did a speed brew on Saturday as well, 3 hours flat and grain was not crushed the day before (as is my normal method)... but efficiency sucked @ 70%. I guess it wasn't terrible since I usually target 75%, but it was a little disheartening.
However, the culprit seems to be white wheat. I brewed with it before and got crap efficiency when it was 40% of the grain bill. This time it was much less, but it is very hard to get a decent crush on wheat in the blender.
And, since I was hurrying, said "flocc it, good enough."
Luckily, this is a Saison, so the FG should more than make up for the slight reduction in efficiency.
Also, my burner did go out (windy as hell) and ended up boiling off a little less than normal. Oh well.
Also, I have no pictures because I'm a noob.
What was the OG?
1.048 vs. Target of 1.052.
Not terrible. It's a smallish Saison, I was shooting for 6.5%, but will end up closer to 6% if Belle Saison yeast is as much of a beast as people say.
Mashed at 150°
1.048 vs. Target of 1.052.
Not terrible. It's a smallish Saison, I was shooting for 6.5%, but will end up closer to 6% if Belle Saison yeast is as much of a beast as people say.
Mashed at 150°
Are you doing anything special for fermentation temperatures? Heard some people keep saisons on the warmer side.
Sounds good. That will still pack a punch if (as is likely) it gets down close to 1.000. Your own recipe?
Ya, I definitely forgot to take an OG flying blind on the efficiency for this one
First world problems.
Just got the BIAB bag back from the MIL... She did an awesome job.
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That's a fine looking bag you got there. Very nice.
HBT... Where men compliment each other's bags
That's a fine looking bag you got there. Very nice. Look forward to hearing how it holds up with your next big batch. Are you going for a 10ish gallon?
Just tried a Saison for the first time. St Feuillien
Just delicious. Looking forward to trying yours.
Lot's of cool data
Hey priceless.
This is really interesting stuff. Cool idea to try out the Kaiser's model on two small batches like this. Looks you were busy busy busy today. Kudos for taking the time and effort to record it all and share with us numbers nerds. Thanks
Would it be fair to say that you will not be discarding your thin mash full-volume no sparge model based on this?
I'll have to do another couple batches to compare, but from what it looks like to me I get a similar mash efficiency with no sparge and with equal runnings, however the conversion efficiency appears to be faster and higher in the end with the full volume mash but the "lauter" efficiency is slightly lower which makes them even out. I'll be doing a couple more "equal runnings biab" batches before I have enough space to do a full volume mash.
A key difference to me is the amount of "work" in order to drain the bag, squeeze it slightly, then dunk sparge and batch sparge dough in, then combine runnings, then bring to boil. Adds about 10-15 minutes and if it doesn't help me then I'll most likely be avoiding doing so unless necessary due to size constraints. Although I'm currently leaning more towards lower the batch size rather than raising the sparge volume, noone is going to know you only made 44 bottles instead of 48 bottles.
However I'm currently sitting on 5.5 gallons now, zero empty fermenters, and a severe lack of empty bottles so might be a couple weeks before I get to brew again
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