RatsoRizzo
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Waiting for my mash to finish so thought I might as well post this.
The plan today is to brew two 1-gallon batches using the same grain bill; an imperial stout and a dry stout. The idea and recipes are from Mike Karnowski's book 'Homebrew beyond the basics'.
I will brew the imperial stout as I normally do (full volume mash). As I understand it I probably won't get my usual efficiency (75%) so after the mash I will see what the OG is and then decide whether to squeeze the bag to get closer to the planned OG of 1.100 or whether to leave the bag drain a bit and leave the sugars still in the bag for the second beer. In that case I will then bump up the imperial stout with some DME.
The grain bag will be placed in a cooler and I'll add 5,5L of water, stir and leave it for 15 minutes. I will then check the gravity and see where to go from there. If it looks like the gravity is good enough to get a 1.040 dry stout then I will proceed but if the second wort is looking and tasting thin I'll add some crystal malts to steep and try and get a nice mild out of it by adding some DME to the boil.
Mash time is up. I'll update this later in case anyone's interested.
The plan today is to brew two 1-gallon batches using the same grain bill; an imperial stout and a dry stout. The idea and recipes are from Mike Karnowski's book 'Homebrew beyond the basics'.
I will brew the imperial stout as I normally do (full volume mash). As I understand it I probably won't get my usual efficiency (75%) so after the mash I will see what the OG is and then decide whether to squeeze the bag to get closer to the planned OG of 1.100 or whether to leave the bag drain a bit and leave the sugars still in the bag for the second beer. In that case I will then bump up the imperial stout with some DME.
The grain bag will be placed in a cooler and I'll add 5,5L of water, stir and leave it for 15 minutes. I will then check the gravity and see where to go from there. If it looks like the gravity is good enough to get a 1.040 dry stout then I will proceed but if the second wort is looking and tasting thin I'll add some crystal malts to steep and try and get a nice mild out of it by adding some DME to the boil.
Mash time is up. I'll update this later in case anyone's interested.