lgtg
Well-Known Member
Here's the recipe: (5 gallon batch)
Wild Warthog Hefe
Malt:
6.6lbs Wheat Malt
Grains:
8oz Crystal 10L
6oz Cara-Pils
8oz Wheat
Hops:
2oz Liberty
Yeast:
White Labs -German Hefe\Wheat
Calls for 1.5 gallons boil (per 3.5 gallons top water in the fermenter)
Boil for 60, most likely reduces to 1gallon if Extract\Grain method (no mash\sparge)
My question is, using the recipator (I will brew a 2.5 gallon batch in my Beer Machine fermentor) but wanted to see if the spreadsheet resized the grains properly, I don't know why they wouldn't it's only a even split!
What I wanted to see though, is if I changed the boil volume to 3gallons (with probable reduction to 2.5 or slightly less) would that change the grain bill or hop schedule and it did not. So, is there any benefit or disadvantage to me boiling 3gallons instead of 1.5 for a 2.5gallon fermentor capacity? Maybe I'm just not understanding what the deal is about that.
Can anyone splain me dat?
Larry
Wild Warthog Hefe
Malt:
6.6lbs Wheat Malt
Grains:
8oz Crystal 10L
6oz Cara-Pils
8oz Wheat
Hops:
2oz Liberty
Yeast:
White Labs -German Hefe\Wheat
Calls for 1.5 gallons boil (per 3.5 gallons top water in the fermenter)
Boil for 60, most likely reduces to 1gallon if Extract\Grain method (no mash\sparge)
My question is, using the recipator (I will brew a 2.5 gallon batch in my Beer Machine fermentor) but wanted to see if the spreadsheet resized the grains properly, I don't know why they wouldn't it's only a even split!
What I wanted to see though, is if I changed the boil volume to 3gallons (with probable reduction to 2.5 or slightly less) would that change the grain bill or hop schedule and it did not. So, is there any benefit or disadvantage to me boiling 3gallons instead of 1.5 for a 2.5gallon fermentor capacity? Maybe I'm just not understanding what the deal is about that.
Can anyone splain me dat?
Larry