21 Year Old Baby Beer

[RyeGuy]

Shaking up your fermenter after you put the wort in there for like 5 minutes will aerate it. I use this: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/cheap-easy-aeration-gadget-68218/. I use it to transfer from the kettle to the fermenter and from what I can tell it aerates it very well. You could also go with an oxygen stone and O2, but that costs money.

Cool, thanks for the link. I built one of the venturi injectors from that thread last night and tested it out. It worked great.

 

[RyeGuy]

Got an update on this. Me and my brother brewed it this past Sunday. Final recipe is below:

22.5 lb 2 Row
3 lb Marris Otter
1.25 lb Vienna
1.25 lb Victory
3 lb Munich
0.5 lb Pale Chocolate
3 lb Briess Amber LME
5 lb Estimated Sugar Primary Additions

5 oz Magnum 14.5% 90 min
0.5 oz Amarillo 9.9% 15 min
0.5 oz Cascade 5.4% 15 min
0.5 ozAmarillo 9.9% 1 min
0.5 oz Cascade 5.4% 1 min

2 packs of Notty with Fermax



I ended up double mashing this. 150F for the first and 148F for the 2nd. Hit pretty much all my expected gravities and was even a little high on the volume I got out of it. Mash efficiencies were 90% for the 1st mash and 73% for the 2nd.

Final gravity was 1.121 for a projected ABV of 13.5% w/o sugar additions. Looking at 18% with sugar added. BH efficiency was about 60% as I estimated. Fermenting at 60F right now and raging pretty hard. I'm pretty happy with the results. I've seen a lot of questions on BIAB double mashing and researched it a lot. From this experience it seems to be a good way to brew big beers.

 

[jessej122]

That's awesome man! Congratulations