1st AG

[speedie789]

Hey everyone,
I have about 10 extract brews under my belt, and decieded to build a 2 gallon MLT. I did a 5 gal PM last week with it(its currenty fermenting) and everything seemed to go pretty good.
Assuming that my PM will be my best beer ever, i thought I would next move on to AG(2.5 gal, batch due to my stovetop). I thought I would go with a basic dry stout as follows:
3.75 # Pale Malt
0.6 # Roasted Barley
0.7oz Challenger hops(60 min)

I used Beersmith but I don't know what to set the biol volume as.
Thanks for the help.

 

[speedie789]

Also, how do you calculate the % efficency?
Thanks!

 

[Yooper]

Hey everyone,
I have about 10 extract brews under my belt, and decieded to build a 2 gallon MLT. I did a 5 gal PM last week with it(its currenty fermenting) and everything seemed to go pretty good.
Assuming that my PM will be my best beer ever, i thought I would next move on to AG(2.5 gal, batch due to my stovetop). I thought I would go with a basic dry stout as follows:
3.75 # Pale Malt
0.6 # Roasted Barley
0.7oz Challenger hops(60 min)

I used Beersmith but I don't know what to set the biol volume as.
Thanks for the help.

If your batch size is 2.5 gallons, I'd do the boil volume as 3.5 gallons. Can you do a 3.5 gallon boil?

 

[speedie789]

Yeah, 3.5 gal boil isn't a problem, anything greater than that im going to have some issues, My boil pot is 5 gal. I've never claimed to be a very good with math, how do you calculate the pre boil volume?
Thanks

 

[BigNastyBrew]

Beer smith will do it for you. Assuming you edit the parameters on some equipment and figure in 15% evap loss from the boil. ANd maybe .25 trub loss on your 2.5 gal batch