recipe walk through

[volkvanmyn25]

Hi. I'm a new/beginner all grain brewer. I just need some walk through on some of the recipes.

According to the following recipe, how much water to you use in your mash tun?


Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: British Ale - Wyeast Labs #1098
Yeast Starter: Absolutely
Batch Size (Gallons): 11
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.013
IBU: 25.8
Boiling Time (Minutes): 75
Color: 14.4
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 7 Days at 67 degrees
Additional Fermentation: Crash Cold Condition for 2 weeks if possible
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 10 Days at 67 degrees



Batch Size: 11.00 gal
Boil Size: 13.12 gal
Estimated OG: 1.052 SG
Estimated Color: 14.4 SRM

Estimated IBU: 25.8 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 67.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:------------
Amount Item
15.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
5.00 lb Toasted Malt (27.0 SRM) (2-row toasted at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes)
2.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)
1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM)

1.00 oz Williamette [5.50%] (60 min) Hops 9.7 IBU
1.00 oz Tettnang [6.50%] (30 min) Hops 8.8 IBU
1.00 oz Williamette [4.60%] (20 min) Hops 4.9 IBU
1.00 oz Tettnang [6.50%] (5 min) Hops 2.3 IBU

2 Pkgs British Ale (Wyeast Labs #1098) Yeast-Ale (I'm pitching on a yeast cake from a prior brew)


Single infusion mash at 157 degrees. Boil for 75 minutes following the hops schedule. It may be necesary to reduce to a lower rolling boil to prevent excess boil off.

 

[Bithead]

Looks like about 7.5 gal for mash in.

 

[volkvanmyn25]

thanks, I calculated it at about 8 gallons. The recipe doesn't mention anthing about sparging? Do i just fill my cooking pot up to the desired level before the boil (including evaporation loss)?

 

[Bithead]

Vorlauf and drain after mash time. Have your sparge water heated to 168*. Dump sparge water on grain stir, vorlauf, drain. Boil.

Use 8 gallons if that suits your tun better. I have very little dead space and my strike water calculations were performed using my tun specs (40 qt square cooler with cpvc manifold) at 1.25 qts per pound.