Recipe Kit Help

[craley1]

I have done a couple extra brew batches with my friends but we woud like to move to all-grain brewing. For this first batch we are going to do everything by hand with extract brew equipment. With regard to answering the question, just assume I have one pot/fermenter/piece-of-equipment that is large enough to handle the volume required.

I am looking to order an all-grain recipe kit (Hop Head Double IPA) from Midwestsupplies.com. I am trying to figure out how much wort volume I should expect. The ingredients are as follows:

14 lbs. Domestic 2-Row barley malt
4 oz. Aromatic
12 oz. Caramel 60L
8 oz. Victory
1 oz. Chinook
1 oz. Cascade
1 oz. Centennial
1 oz. Crystal
2 oz. whole hops (dry hop)
priming sugar
yeast

If I use 1.5 quarts/lb for the mash [1.5 qt. x (1/4 + 3/4 + 1/2 + 14) = 23.25 qt. or 5.81 gallons] and 0.5 gallons/lb for the sparge [0.5 gal. x (1/4 + 3/4 + 1/2 + 14) = 7.75 gallons] then would I end up with 13.56 gallons [5.81 + 7.75 = 13.56] for total volume, not counting any evaporation? My initial thought is that I could end up with 10 gallons of wort after the boil. Is that reasonable or just a bad rookie estimate?

Sorry for the sloppy math equations.

 

[Frank99]

1.5 qt/lb & .5 gal/lb are good numbers. Remember, your grain will soak up a lot of wort. Also, you'll most likely have deadspace in your mash tun. So, you really want to figure out what your preboil volume should be and STOP collecting at that point. I think the rule of thumb for evaporation (this will vary) is about 1.25 - 1.5 gal/hour + your pellet hops will soak up some wort also.

 

[RogueVassar]

I've made a few 5-gallon batches that are about twelve pounds of grain and probably aren't as strong as that beer. I can't imagine that's a 10-gallon batch. Especially if it's a kit that you're talking about, I'm sure it makes 5 gallons.

 

[RCCOLA]

Mine would look like this:

Dough in with 23qts. water
Grain will soak up ~.8qt. per lb so:
10.6 qts of first runnings--> Here it is critical to know exactly how much you collected, have your kettle marked or have a stick/spoon marked with kettle volumes.

Sparge with 14 qts of water (MOL depending on how much first runnings you collected) and stop collecting @ 6gals.
Boil off 1 gal over 60 mins. for a final volume of 5 gals.