All grain golden ale

[mhandransmith]

Hey everyone just a question when your brewing all grain beers, when your brewing 10 litres at a time in your pot and poor it into the fermenter after the cooling stage does it increase the alcohol levels when you put only 12 litres of water in your fermenter to make it 22 litres???

 

[clevefails]

not at all,your still diluting the concentrate, you would need less water for a higher o.g. or more grain

 

[JimRausch]

It depends on the original volume of the recipe.
For example, if your recipe calls for 24 liters and your volume is only 22, then you will have a higher OG, and depending on the attenuation potential of your yeast, a higher final ABV.

Oops, reread your post after posting mine, and saw that you were asking about allgrain. In that case, the difference between 24L and 22L, assuming you are adding 1st runnings plus sparge, will be very small. In this case it depends on how dilute your final sparge was.

 

[mhandransmith]

Hey guys I was only using 150 grams of crystal grains and sparging that at the time so what are your suggestions for next time I brew another all grain?? It's only been my second all grain and my first all grain brew was sitting around 5% alcohol. Thanks for your help, hope to hear back soon!!

 

[mhandransmith]

Hey guys I only used 150 grams of crystal grains for this brew and my alcohol content was sitting around 5% so next time what would I do to make a higher alcohol percentage maybe around 7%, this is my second try at all grain so it's still all new to me. I had my grains sitting in a pot for about 60mins along with my cooking because that's what I was told to do. Your help would be great for my next brew if you give me your knowledge on what to do. Thanks Again guys..

 

[JimRausch]

Do you know what temperature you kept the mash in the pot? That's real critical. For example if you mashed at 145*f for 60 min. you would tend to get a drier beer than if you mashed at 155*f.
To increase your ABV, you need to add more grains to the mash, or add other fermentables to the boiling kettle, like sugar or honey.
An on-line brewing recipe calculator would help. I use 'brewtoad.com', but there are several others, both free and $.
By the way- welcome to the obscession.....

 

[mhandransmith]

Hey jim cheers for getting back to me. From the top of my head the mash was sitting at about 68 to 70 degrees, I hope that's ok because that's what I have been told to do especially in the cooling down stage. Cheers for the site brewtoad.com I will have a look at that later on tonite. Thanks for the welcoming aswell everyone has been great and your help is appreciated. Have a good 1 mate..

 

[dhallila]

Hey jim cheers for getting back to me. From the top of my head the mash was sitting at about 68 to 70 degrees, I hope that's ok because that's what I have been told to do especially in the cooling down stage. Cheers for the site brewtoad.com I will have a look at that later on tonite. Thanks for the welcoming aswell everyone has been great and your help is appreciated. Have a good 1 mate..

That is way to low. You want to mash around 145 to 155 for a more fail safe brew. 68-70 is like room temp... Thats post boil when you want to pitch the yeast or fermenting which I believe is what you're talking about. Which is correct a long as it is an ale. Trial and error keep brewing.

 

[Mongrel]

That is way to low. You want to mash around 145 to 155 for a more fail safe brew. 68-70 is like room temp... Thats post boil when you want to pitch the yeast or fermenting which I believe is what you're talking about. Which is correct a long as it is an ale. Trial and error keep brewing.

If you notice all of his measurements have been metric. 68 C is 154 F

 

[mhandransmith]

I really appreciate u guys getting back to me and it was post boiling when I put it into my fermenter so I'm happy that's right. My galaxy ale is sitting nicely around 20 degrees and will be ready to drink soon, talk with you all soon and thanks again!!