adamjab19
Well-Known Member
So I jumped shipped and did a small all grain batch today via brew in a bag style. I put together a 2.5 gallon american wheat beer.
Recipe:
2.5 lbs American 2 row
2.5 lbs white wheat
.5 lbs light munich
wyeast 1010
60 minute boil
.5 oz saaz (5.8%) 45 mins
.25 oz saaz 25 mins
.25 oz saaz 0 mins
Calculated for 2.5 gals at 65% efficiency and estimated OG of 1.054.
Following the brew in a bag (BIAB) method you need to add ALL the mash and sparge water to the brew pot. Using brew365.com calculator with 1.33 for mash thickness it said 5.19 gals of water total. Threw that into my 30qt turkey fryer and brought the temp up to 158*F. You don't need to go too high on the strike water because there is a higher ratio of water to grain than what is in a normal MLT situation. Put my paint strainer in and threw in the grains and stirred. Hit my mash temp at 152*F and wrapped a towel around my pot. At 30 mins of mashing had to fire it up because it fell a couple of degrees. After 60 mins turned on the heat to get it to 170*F. Took out the paint strainer that had all of the grains and started to get it to a boil.
Ran out of propane at this point and had to move things inside. Didn't get too high of a boil so I didn't lose as much as I had planned during the boil. Ended up with 3.75gals of wort. The OG ended up being 1.030. So with the same amount of grains but recalculating the recipe with the higher amount of wort the estimated OG should have been 1.036 anyway so not too bad. Lost a little on the IBU front too. Went from 26 to 19. Lost a little color as well.
I highly recommend doing the brew in the bag method for new AG'ers. With a 30qt pot though I don't think I could do more than a 7-8lb grain bill because you need all of the water at once. So either a strong small batch or a light big batch of beer. And all you need is a paint strainer and a veggie strainer at the bottom of the brew pot.
Any help on brewhouse efficiency would be nice. Can't figure out beer alchemy.
Follow the tutorial on brewing networks website. The Brewing Network • View topic - How to go from Extract to AG for < $10.00
Recipe:
2.5 lbs American 2 row
2.5 lbs white wheat
.5 lbs light munich
wyeast 1010
60 minute boil
.5 oz saaz (5.8%) 45 mins
.25 oz saaz 25 mins
.25 oz saaz 0 mins
Calculated for 2.5 gals at 65% efficiency and estimated OG of 1.054.
Following the brew in a bag (BIAB) method you need to add ALL the mash and sparge water to the brew pot. Using brew365.com calculator with 1.33 for mash thickness it said 5.19 gals of water total. Threw that into my 30qt turkey fryer and brought the temp up to 158*F. You don't need to go too high on the strike water because there is a higher ratio of water to grain than what is in a normal MLT situation. Put my paint strainer in and threw in the grains and stirred. Hit my mash temp at 152*F and wrapped a towel around my pot. At 30 mins of mashing had to fire it up because it fell a couple of degrees. After 60 mins turned on the heat to get it to 170*F. Took out the paint strainer that had all of the grains and started to get it to a boil.
Ran out of propane at this point and had to move things inside. Didn't get too high of a boil so I didn't lose as much as I had planned during the boil. Ended up with 3.75gals of wort. The OG ended up being 1.030. So with the same amount of grains but recalculating the recipe with the higher amount of wort the estimated OG should have been 1.036 anyway so not too bad. Lost a little on the IBU front too. Went from 26 to 19. Lost a little color as well.
I highly recommend doing the brew in the bag method for new AG'ers. With a 30qt pot though I don't think I could do more than a 7-8lb grain bill because you need all of the water at once. So either a strong small batch or a light big batch of beer. And all you need is a paint strainer and a veggie strainer at the bottom of the brew pot.
Any help on brewhouse efficiency would be nice. Can't figure out beer alchemy.
Follow the tutorial on brewing networks website. The Brewing Network • View topic - How to go from Extract to AG for < $10.00
