Suggest an excellent beginners all-grain BIAB?

[jmich24]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002EAL58/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Here is all you need to make great beer IMO, Flawless Sanitation, Pitching enough yeast and feremtation control.

 

[ThePonchoKid]

Sweet. I'll grab up one of these along with a much needed cheap food scale.

Do you play around with the controls much if you aren't lagering? I hadn't considered that room temp vs. 65/68F would be so critical. Thanks again.

 

[ThePonchoKid]

SMASH
Maris Otter and Amarillo. 5US gallon
3.8kg Maris Otter(will give you an OG of 1048)
about 30 IBUs of Amarillo at 60
then an oz each at 15,10,5 and another oz to dry hop with.
THE best smash I have done.

Looks like some Maris Otter is now in stock. Tomorrow I'll get final details on what I can get along with the AA% of the Amarillo


I guess I can PM you lol

 

[GlenF]

8lbs 2 row
.5lb Crystal 60

1oz Cascade @ 60, 20, 10
2oz Cascade dry hop

 

[ThePonchoKid]

AA% is 5-6% on the amarillo in stock

 

[badlee]

OK my man, here you go.
If the actual IBUs are closer to 6%, bring the amount down to 40gr. If closer to 5% up to 45gr.
I calculated the IBUs at 5.6% and you need 42gr @60 and then 1oz(28gr) each at 15,10 and 5 minutes and finally dry hop with 1 oz.
This brew will be wicked.

 

[ThePonchoKid]

1048 spot on! I'm going to have to do a secondary transfer at some point though.

A few things occurred...

strike temp was 170 and stayed at 170 for over 15 minutes.

cheesecloth isn't good enough to bag up hops

so my wort is a little bit mucky, and in a freezer that still smells like fish fillets. i figure after the brunt of the fermentation is complete i'll xfer to another vessel. let it set for a week and then cold crash for another week before kegging

also they didn't have amarillo, i went with centennial pellets with an aa% of 9.7

1oz at 60 15 10 5

no dry hop

thanks for the direction badlee lol, but i think this is now going to be the 100 year old fishy smash brew!!!!

 

[badlee]

It looks like you did a sterling job mate.
Can't say I have ever had the pleasure of Centennial, too hard to get over here in Thailand.
You could call it Moby's flacid Dick lol

 

[ThePonchoKid]

It looks like you did a sterling job mate.
Can't say I have ever had the pleasure of Centennial, too hard to get over here in Thailand.
You could call it Moby's flacid Dick lol

You say that you've done about five of these smashes? I do primary straight to keg and was thinking 2 weeks, a few days cold crash, and then 2 weeks carbing up in the keg. What have you been doing? I'm getting impatient lol

I've already made a second of the same smash, but at a lower strike temp