Tomorrow I am attempting my first PM. I have read the sticky on how to do an easy PM and I feel fairly good about the process. Ed Wort's recipe:
Mini Mash
You might be able to do a mini mash with 5 lbs. of light DME.
Heat 3.5 qts of water to ~168/169F in a pot.
Heat a gallon of water to ~170 in another pot.
Add 2lb. of Vienna and 1/2 lb. of Crystal 10L (crushed grains) to the pot with the 168/169F water and stir very throughly.
Put lid on that pot, placed in oven at 150F.
Let it sit for an hour.
Pour the water (now wort) into your brew pot through your strainer. Put grains back into pot.
Pour the 170F water into the pot where your grain is, stir throughly, let sit for 10 mins. Pour that wort into your brew pot through your strainer.
You'll get 50-60% efficiency with that partial mash method.
Add additional water, extract, and hops to the brew pot and proceed like usual.
My Questions:
*****I will be doing a 3 gallon partial boil. How much water do I start with when putting the grains in the oven? He says 3.5 gallons in the oven so what should I start with when doing the partial boil method?
*****Also, the next step is to use 1 gallon of water to sit in the grains for 10 minutes. Do I still use 1 gallon here?
*****If I do a 3 gallon partial boil when adding my 5 lbs of DME how should I adjust my hops? Reduce by about a 1/3?
Thank you!
Mini Mash
You might be able to do a mini mash with 5 lbs. of light DME.
Heat 3.5 qts of water to ~168/169F in a pot.
Heat a gallon of water to ~170 in another pot.
Add 2lb. of Vienna and 1/2 lb. of Crystal 10L (crushed grains) to the pot with the 168/169F water and stir very throughly.
Put lid on that pot, placed in oven at 150F.
Let it sit for an hour.
Pour the water (now wort) into your brew pot through your strainer. Put grains back into pot.
Pour the 170F water into the pot where your grain is, stir throughly, let sit for 10 mins. Pour that wort into your brew pot through your strainer.
You'll get 50-60% efficiency with that partial mash method.
Add additional water, extract, and hops to the brew pot and proceed like usual.
My Questions:
*****I will be doing a 3 gallon partial boil. How much water do I start with when putting the grains in the oven? He says 3.5 gallons in the oven so what should I start with when doing the partial boil method?
*****Also, the next step is to use 1 gallon of water to sit in the grains for 10 minutes. Do I still use 1 gallon here?
*****If I do a 3 gallon partial boil when adding my 5 lbs of DME how should I adjust my hops? Reduce by about a 1/3?
Thank you!