bctdi
Well-Known Member
I'm doing a 1.051 cream ale with an 11 lb grain bill. I have a 48 qt cooler mash tun and a 10 gallon kettle. I would like double this recipe and get 2 5 gallon batches for 2 seperate fermenters. I want them both to be the same beer.I've read about partigyle brewing , but that seems to be more about getting 2 different beers out of 1 batch. Would it be feasable to just double my grain bill and mash / sparge till I get my normal boil volume , then dilute with water after the boil to bring my gravity back down to 1.051? I've never tried this before and it seems like it should work out, but not sure about scaling up the hop additions or how much water to dilute with to get my target gravity. Anyone have any experience doing it this way?