I had an epic brewday today where I finished 2-6 gallon batches and 1-5 gallon batch in 6 hours with only 1 propare burner and my stove.
The grain bill was:
22lbs of Maris Otter
.5 lbs of Chocolate Malt
The original plan was a single parti-gyle with a Scottish Wee Heavy (1.070 OG) and a Scottish 70 (1.040 OG). I've parti-gyled a few times before and I'm hooked on it, 2 batches for minimal more work and I love comparing different strengths of a grain bill.
Anyways, The first batch went off without a hitch and and I hit my preboil gravity right on (ended right on 1.070), I added my parti-gyle water as planned and got my pre-boil gravity again perfect. Then things got a little crazy, I thought instead of waiting for the first batch to finish boiling on my propane burner I could split it into 2 pots on my stove and boil. So now I have 6 gallons boiling outside and 2 pots of 3 gallons each boiling on the stove. Then as I was drawing the last of the parti-gyle wort I took a reading out of curiousity, the OG was still in the 1020s. I figured I shouldn't let those left sugars go to waste, out of curiousity I decided to add 5 more gallons of water to the tun let it sit and see what I got. The problem now was I was out of pots and burners, so I filled my 2L electric kettle and plugged it in, after it hit 190 I poured it into a plastic bucket I had, doing that 10 times yielded me 20L of water that was cooled to 170 by the time I was ready to add it. This 3rd parti-gyle went into the tun for 30 minutes while I focused on chilling my first batch outside while watching my second batch boiling on the stove.
I got my first batch chilled in 25 minutes, poured it into a carboy pitched the yeast and ran it downstairs to the fermentation room, just in time to drain my third parti-gyle, while it was draining I chilled my second batch got it pitched and into the fermentation room. Ran upstairs just in time to add my hop addition to my 3rd batch, relaxed for a bit then chilled and pitched my 3rd batch.
So after that crazy 6 hours I now have
6 gallons of Wee Heavy at 1070, 24.7 IBUS of Fuggle and 1728 Scottish Yeast
6 gallons of Scotch Ale at 1040, 19 IBUs of Fuggles and 1728 Scottish Yeast
5 gallons of Lite Scotch Ale at 1028, 11 IBUS of Fuggles and S-05
I've really excited to see how all of these turn out, especially to see if the lightest ale has any astringency or off taste from all that sparging and how it compares to the 2nd batch if its too flavorless or maybe delicious. I'll update in a few months with how it all tasted.
The grain bill was:
22lbs of Maris Otter
.5 lbs of Chocolate Malt
The original plan was a single parti-gyle with a Scottish Wee Heavy (1.070 OG) and a Scottish 70 (1.040 OG). I've parti-gyled a few times before and I'm hooked on it, 2 batches for minimal more work and I love comparing different strengths of a grain bill.
Anyways, The first batch went off without a hitch and and I hit my preboil gravity right on (ended right on 1.070), I added my parti-gyle water as planned and got my pre-boil gravity again perfect. Then things got a little crazy, I thought instead of waiting for the first batch to finish boiling on my propane burner I could split it into 2 pots on my stove and boil. So now I have 6 gallons boiling outside and 2 pots of 3 gallons each boiling on the stove. Then as I was drawing the last of the parti-gyle wort I took a reading out of curiousity, the OG was still in the 1020s. I figured I shouldn't let those left sugars go to waste, out of curiousity I decided to add 5 more gallons of water to the tun let it sit and see what I got. The problem now was I was out of pots and burners, so I filled my 2L electric kettle and plugged it in, after it hit 190 I poured it into a plastic bucket I had, doing that 10 times yielded me 20L of water that was cooled to 170 by the time I was ready to add it. This 3rd parti-gyle went into the tun for 30 minutes while I focused on chilling my first batch outside while watching my second batch boiling on the stove.
I got my first batch chilled in 25 minutes, poured it into a carboy pitched the yeast and ran it downstairs to the fermentation room, just in time to drain my third parti-gyle, while it was draining I chilled my second batch got it pitched and into the fermentation room. Ran upstairs just in time to add my hop addition to my 3rd batch, relaxed for a bit then chilled and pitched my 3rd batch.
So after that crazy 6 hours I now have
6 gallons of Wee Heavy at 1070, 24.7 IBUS of Fuggle and 1728 Scottish Yeast
6 gallons of Scotch Ale at 1040, 19 IBUs of Fuggles and 1728 Scottish Yeast
5 gallons of Lite Scotch Ale at 1028, 11 IBUS of Fuggles and S-05
I've really excited to see how all of these turn out, especially to see if the lightest ale has any astringency or off taste from all that sparging and how it compares to the 2nd batch if its too flavorless or maybe delicious. I'll update in a few months with how it all tasted.