beauvafr said:I got a deal on a 9 gal pot. Is 9 gallons enough for 5 gallons batchs?
I think 7 gals is the smallest pot I've heard for 5 gallon brews.
BryceL said:My old setup was full boil BIAB for 5 gallon batches. I had an 8 gallon boil kettle and was able to do beers up to 8.5% abv or so.
@BryceL Do you have water boiling off the pot sometimes ? Difficulty swirling or anything?
Good info there. That is all without sparging. If you're willing to sparge your BIAB, you can go higher than those numbers.I have a calculator I can punch these numbers in for you. I recently posted about the same size kettle and if you want to have 6.5 gals preboil your max grain is 10.87 lbs. 6 gals is 13.04 lbs. That's assuming a grain absorption factor of 0.15 gal/lb (this will vary depending on how much you squeeze, etc.) and a grain volume factor of .32 qt/lb.
dgr said:Good info there. That is all without sparging. If you're willing to sparge your BIAB, you can go higher than those numbers.
beauvafr said:@kscarrington 18 pounds for a 5 gallons means which OG?
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