Partial Mash

[larrysbooze]

Does anyone have a good Partial Mash Recipe I can use? It will be my first Partial Mash and I would like it easy. Also, what equipment should I use? I was just looking at the Easy Partial Mash brewing with pictures and it was very helpful, I think I will use that method unless someone has a better method!

 

[kanielb1]

Here is my first PM recipe. I used a 5 gallon nylon paint straining bag to mash my grains in. I mashed in a 5 gallon pot and sparged in a 4 gallon pot.

English Brown Ale

3# Light DME
5# 2-row
1# Crystal 60l, Chocolate, Spec. B, Roasted Barley (divided equally)
1oz Northern Brewer 60 min
1oz Kent Goldings Last 15 min
Wyeast London Ale

 

[larrysbooze]

Thanks for the Reply!

I have an 11 Gallon pot and a 2 gallon pot. Could that work somehow you think? Thanks for the help.

The recipe looks awesome. thanks

 

[wilserbrewer]

Thanks for the Reply!

I have an 11 Gallon pot and a 2 gallon pot. Could that work somehow you think? Thanks for the help.

The recipe looks awesome. thanks

Nice, an 11 gallon pot, you got a burner or are you stovetopping.
W/ an 11 gallon kettle you just might be able to do an all grain BIAB. Sorry to say but the 2 gal is a bit small??

If you have a five gallon HDPE bucket, you could heat your strike water in the kettle, mash in the bucket wrapped w/ blankets, then move your grain bag to the kettle w/ your sparge water. Remove grain, add first runnings from the bucket to the kettle and you are AG.

 

[larrysbooze]

hmm whats an all-grain BIAB? Do you know where I could learn to set one up? haha sorry I'm new to brewing i've done about 6 Extract Brews. The two gallon is just my pot for cooking noodles and stuff. Would prefer to not buy any new equipment. I got the 11 gal because I wanted one really nice pot for brewing. Is there a way to just use the one?

Thanks

 

[Revvy]

You can do a pm version of my brown ale...I go into great detail of different ways you can pm it depending on how big a cooler you have to mash the grains. In a two, three or 5 gallon cooler.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/old-bog-road-brown-ale-pm-extract-w-grain-61591/

I've used a 2 gallon for small pms before, you can mash up to 4 pounds of grain in a 2 gallon un modified cooler. So that's why I have figured it out for 4 pounds of mashing grains in a two gallon cooler as the simplest sized Partial mash you can do, without even adding a ballvalve and braid on the cooler.

I put a folding steamer in the bottom to lift the grain above the drain spigot. The I rubberband a large grain bag inside to set the grain in.

One of these.

(unscrew or break off the center post)

Using the strainer lifts the grainbag above the level of the spigot and prevent stuck sparges.

Vorloffing to set the grain bed.

A piece of hose with a small slit can be wedged to drain the cooler into the 5 gallon brewpot for my stove.

 

[larrysbooze]

I'm stovetopping by the way. live in an apartment

 

[Revvy]

I'm stovetopping by the way. live in an apartment

That;s what my post was about, stovetop brewing.

 

[larrysbooze]

sorry, i posted that before I read yours. That sounds like a great way to do it. I will be sure to go purchase a 5 gal cooler and the metal steamer. Then that would be all I need? How long do i mash it? and how do you keep the stuff in the cooler at the correct temperature? Sorry for all the dumb questions!

 

[Revvy]

It says in my recipe

Mash for 90 minutes @ 155 degrees (Heated the water to 170 and added to 69 degree grain) with 1.25 quarts of water/pound of grain. Batch sparge with 2 gallons. Add DME as you normally would.

 

[larrysbooze]

Awesome. Will do this and let you know how it goes. Thanks Revvy