If I were to have an opportunity to brew on a 10bbl brewing system as opposes to the 5gallon home system (a difference of 305 gallons) I use now, what could I expect for ingredients? Is everything just multiplied? I'm asking because there may be an opportunity but I cannot find anything on extract brewing at this level. Thanks everyone for your help!!
Extract 10bbl system
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The reason is cost. Extract is at least 2x the price of grains per point of gravity (it might actually be much higher I'm ball parking off kit prices not a grain price v extract price)... For the home brewer, this probably makes little difference if doing just 5 to 10 batches a year, esp when comparing agianst buying AG equipment and storage (my problem is more storage than AG price/time). Bries and others do sell lme by the 55gallon drum (about 700+lb)
Anyhow generally when scalling up I think the multiplying is done, the only caveat is that sometimes the hops need adjusting because of difference in bitterness extraction.
Anyhow generally when scalling up I think the multiplying is done, the only caveat is that sometimes the hops need adjusting because of difference in bitterness extraction.
BigB
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Extract brewing at that level would be extremely expensive...and cost prohibitive on a commercial level. But to calculate recipes at that level, it is just like scaling any recipe. It would not be a linear multiplication with hops or yeast in particular.
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