How to make short beers from imperial beer spent grain?

[ImperialStout]

Wondering how others make short beers from the spent grains of an imperial beer. Include what you want in a reply.

What would really help is how many pounds of grain you used in the imperial beer, how much water you added to the spent grain, what the starting, original and final gravity was, how much beer did you get and what was the ABV.

 

[Johnnyhitch1]

Go to google and type in "partigyle" tons of good links on how to calculate these recipes. Lots of formulas to get 2 beers your happy with. Or you can mash ~15pds of grain and boil the first runnings as one beer and add ~4gals to the mashtun to get your short beer.

 

[FRS]

I just did one of these, 22.5lb of grain, one imperial stout (6 gal at 1.095), one bonus beer (2.5 gal at 1.046). I do BIAB, mash and sparge as normal for beer 1, then put the grain bag in my bottling bucket, add any leftover grains I want to get rid of (I had a half lb of C10 to add this time) and flood with 3 gal of water at about 170. Give it a good stir and drain into a pot for the boil.

Pretty simple really, and a nice way to get an extra case of beer out of an imperial.

 

[BradleyBrew]

I basically mash as much grain as it takes to hit my OG using the no sparge method. Then sparge my grain for the "small" beer. Its pretty easy. Last week I mashed 28lbs for a 5 gallon barleywine, and then sparged those grains for a 3 gallon pale ale.

 

[TheSmithsEra]

I basically mash as much grain as it takes to hit my OG using the no sparge method. Then sparge my grain for the "small" beer. Its pretty easy. Last week I mashed 28lbs for a 5 gallon barleywine, and then sparged those grains for a 3 gallon pale ale.

yoink!

 

[vinylrooster]

I basically mash as much grain as it takes to hit my OG using the no sparge method. Then sparge my grain for the "small" beer. Its pretty easy. Last week I mashed 28lbs for a 5 gallon barleywine, and then sparged those grains for a 3 gallon pale ale.

Guess I know what I'm doing next brew day. Ha

 

[ImperialStout]

Thanks for the comments. Got the basics down. Any comments on what you got for a starting gravity (before boiling) original gravity (after boiling) and final gravity? Also how did you adjust hops quantities?