Juiceyfruit152
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Hello All,
I'm going to brew an imperial Oktoberfest and I plan on indulging in my hard work when Oktoberfest come around in 2018. I have come to the point that the grain build that is being required is starting to exceed the amount of space in 1-5 gallon bag (Muslin or painters bag). With Macguyver skills and the forum and other resources I've been able to use a large cooler. As I've started to make high gravity brews I've started to run into the issue with the bag not being able to completely close. I've looked at the option of using cheese cloth, but the issue is cloth isn't wide enough holdall the grain. It may be a silly question, but if I was to use 2-5 gallon bags would the word be effected if I added the wort to my cooler. I've never separated the grain, but I think its possible. Any insight would be helpful The information for the recipe is below.
OG (est): 1.076
FG (est): 1.020
IBU (est): 38
ABV (est): 7.5%
ALL-GRAIN
MALT/GRAIN BILL
13.3 lb (6.03 kg) Dark Munich
1 lb (454 g) Caramunich III
1 lb (454 g) Melanoiden Malt
HOPS SCHEDULE
2 oz (57 g) Hallertau Mittelfruh at 60 minutes
2 oz (57 g) Hallertau Mittelfruh at 10 minutes
YEAST
Bavarian Lager (Wy 2206/2308) (WLP 833/838)
I'm going to brew an imperial Oktoberfest and I plan on indulging in my hard work when Oktoberfest come around in 2018. I have come to the point that the grain build that is being required is starting to exceed the amount of space in 1-5 gallon bag (Muslin or painters bag). With Macguyver skills and the forum and other resources I've been able to use a large cooler. As I've started to make high gravity brews I've started to run into the issue with the bag not being able to completely close. I've looked at the option of using cheese cloth, but the issue is cloth isn't wide enough holdall the grain. It may be a silly question, but if I was to use 2-5 gallon bags would the word be effected if I added the wort to my cooler. I've never separated the grain, but I think its possible. Any insight would be helpful The information for the recipe is below.
OG (est): 1.076
FG (est): 1.020
IBU (est): 38
ABV (est): 7.5%
ALL-GRAIN
MALT/GRAIN BILL
13.3 lb (6.03 kg) Dark Munich
1 lb (454 g) Caramunich III
1 lb (454 g) Melanoiden Malt
HOPS SCHEDULE
2 oz (57 g) Hallertau Mittelfruh at 60 minutes
2 oz (57 g) Hallertau Mittelfruh at 10 minutes
YEAST
Bavarian Lager (Wy 2206/2308) (WLP 833/838)