TimothyTaylorslLandlady
Active Member
I aimed high when I named myself but my early brews are baffling me. I don't understand the volumes.
I tried to clone Timothy Taylors Landlord and make a whopping 115L (I have big old diary tanks). The beer tastes very promising after 6 days fermenting but I only have 75L and 40Litres are missing.
I mashed 55L, then sparged 60L. Where did it all go? I can see there will be moisture left in the grain and you boil some off but is it usual to lose 35%?
If that is usual, when you have a recipe for 115L do you just add water after the boil to get you to the final volume (115L)? Tap water? But then my SG would have been very low so maybe my sparging was not hot enough (80C)
Or do you sparge with 100L? ??
confused but happy that it still tastes ok
TimothyTaylorsLandlady
I tried to clone Timothy Taylors Landlord and make a whopping 115L (I have big old diary tanks). The beer tastes very promising after 6 days fermenting but I only have 75L and 40Litres are missing.
I mashed 55L, then sparged 60L. Where did it all go? I can see there will be moisture left in the grain and you boil some off but is it usual to lose 35%?
If that is usual, when you have a recipe for 115L do you just add water after the boil to get you to the final volume (115L)? Tap water? But then my SG would have been very low so maybe my sparging was not hot enough (80C)
Or do you sparge with 100L? ??
confused but happy that it still tastes ok
TimothyTaylorsLandlady