MajorJC
Too many hobbies... not enough time.
I found a recipe that I want to brew and I went to BrewHaHa, my LHBS, and asked Mac how to convert a recipe from 3 gallon to 10 gallon batch and he told me it was simply a matter of multiplication. So I multiplied my grain bill by 3.3 and bought my grains.
Now I'm making preparation for my brew and I notice that the original recipe was for BIAB and I will be using a mash tun with fly sparge or batch sparge, I haven't decided which one yet. The brewhouse efficiency in the recipe is 65% and I'm expecting to get a lot higher than that. I wish Mac had bagged my grains separately so I could re weight and decrease my amounts, but he ground them all together and put them into two large paper sacks. One paper sack contains only Briess 2 row and the other sack contains the remainder of the Briess 2 row and all the rest of the grain bill mixed in.
So I'm thinking that I need to change my recipe volume based on the higher efficiency. Is this as simple as doing the brew based on 10 gallon batch and then adding hot liquor until my OG is down to the 1.082 that is called for in the recipe?
I'm thinking this Imperial Stout may be too big of a beer for me to attempt on my first All Grain Brew. Can I Freeze this grain for use at a later date? Should I freeze the hops also?
Now I'm making preparation for my brew and I notice that the original recipe was for BIAB and I will be using a mash tun with fly sparge or batch sparge, I haven't decided which one yet. The brewhouse efficiency in the recipe is 65% and I'm expecting to get a lot higher than that. I wish Mac had bagged my grains separately so I could re weight and decrease my amounts, but he ground them all together and put them into two large paper sacks. One paper sack contains only Briess 2 row and the other sack contains the remainder of the Briess 2 row and all the rest of the grain bill mixed in.
So I'm thinking that I need to change my recipe volume based on the higher efficiency. Is this as simple as doing the brew based on 10 gallon batch and then adding hot liquor until my OG is down to the 1.082 that is called for in the recipe?
I'm thinking this Imperial Stout may be too big of a beer for me to attempt on my first All Grain Brew. Can I Freeze this grain for use at a later date? Should I freeze the hops also?