WVbrewer
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to wrap my head around doing a Barley wine/ ordinary bitter parti- gyle. I've read various threads (Revvy's party-gyle thread helped a great deal) and I'm still looking for a ballpark figure of what my first runnings would be. In other words, what percentage of all sugars converted comes through the first runnings? Here's my basic game plan:
-develop a recipe for my 3 tier keg system (10 gal batch) with an original gravity of about 1.066 (in my case at 75-80% efficiency, 23.50 lbs of grain)
-mash at 1.25 qt/pd and sparge with .5 gal/pd
- start my fly sparge and gather 6.5-7 gallons preboil for my barley wine
-continue fly sparging and gather 5.5-6 gallons preboil for my bitter
-Take gravity readings and adjust hop schedule accordingly
Given my goals of a fairly strong barley wine (not atomic) of 1.085 +, and a ordinary at 1.035+ , is this reasonable for this grain bill or am I missing something?
No matter what, it will be beer. I just want to have some kind of "template" to plan my hop schedules. Thanks for any help
-develop a recipe for my 3 tier keg system (10 gal batch) with an original gravity of about 1.066 (in my case at 75-80% efficiency, 23.50 lbs of grain)
-mash at 1.25 qt/pd and sparge with .5 gal/pd
- start my fly sparge and gather 6.5-7 gallons preboil for my barley wine
-continue fly sparging and gather 5.5-6 gallons preboil for my bitter
-Take gravity readings and adjust hop schedule accordingly
Given my goals of a fairly strong barley wine (not atomic) of 1.085 +, and a ordinary at 1.035+ , is this reasonable for this grain bill or am I missing something?
No matter what, it will be beer. I just want to have some kind of "template" to plan my hop schedules. Thanks for any help