First all grain BIAB recipe attempt

[lefty96]

Throwing this out there for more experienced eyes. I used beersmith 2.0 (trial) and also recreated it on the beersmith mobile app.

Orange Honey Cream Ale

Grains:
7 lb Pale Malt 2 Row
0.75 lb Honey Malt
0.25 Biscuit Malt

Hops:
.75 oz Cluster @ 60 mins

Additions:
1 oz Bitter Orange @ 5 mins
1 lb Honey @ flameout

Mash:
1 hr @ 150 10 min mash out @ 170
Add 35 Qt water @ 155.0 assuming 72 degree grain

Yeast:
Safale US-05


OG: 1.043
IBUs: 18.3
Est ABV 4.9%

 

[Cider123]

It looks like it will make a good beer to me. Just to let you know, you will get much more honey flavor from the honey malt than the honey itself. The pure honey will ferment out and will add more alcohol to your beer than honey flavor. I'd say .75 lb of honey malt is at the high end for your recipe. There tends to be a lot of debate over how much honey malt is too much. For a beer where you want honey flavor to shine through, I think this is just fine.
I can't comment on your sparging technique, since I do BIAB without a sparge.

 

[m00ps]

Looks good to me. I might add the honey into the fermentor though if you want to preserve any of its flavor or aroma

 

[lefty96]

It looks like it will make a good beer to me. Just to let you know, you will get much more honey flavor from the honey malt than the honey itself. The pure honey will ferment out and will add more alcohol to your beer than honey flavor. I'd say .75 lb of honey malt is at the high end for your recipe. There tends to be a lot of debate over how much honey malt is too much. For a beer where you want honey flavor to shine through, I think this is just fine.
I can't comment on your sparging technique, since I do BIAB without a sparge.

I am going to do BIAB, no sparge as well.

 

[Cider123]

Oh sorry, I read the part where you were adding water by the quart and thought it was a sparge. I see now that you were talking about the strike water.

Well, if your doing a true BIAB, then you really don't need a mash out. You certainly can. I believe the folks at BIABrewer.info do say it has some benefit, particularly if you need help with efficiency. It is not essential though and I usually don't bother.