Actually tomorrow morning but I couldn't resist a riff on the song.
Going really old school on my brew day tomorrow and doing a parti-gyle brew. For those not familiar, it's a really old technique where you make a big beer with the first runnings of the mash and smaller beers with each successive run rather than combining all of the wort into one beer. I only have a 5 gallon mash tun so I'm going to do two mashes. The heavy first runnings from each will become about four gallons of Old Ale (1.090 or so) for long aging and the second and third runnings from each will become (I hope) about six gallons of Mild (1.036 if my napkin math is correct). This will be the first time I've attempted a double batch. Should be quite a learning experience . Any advice or past experiences greatly appreciated.
Chad
Going really old school on my brew day tomorrow and doing a parti-gyle brew. For those not familiar, it's a really old technique where you make a big beer with the first runnings of the mash and smaller beers with each successive run rather than combining all of the wort into one beer. I only have a 5 gallon mash tun so I'm going to do two mashes. The heavy first runnings from each will become about four gallons of Old Ale (1.090 or so) for long aging and the second and third runnings from each will become (I hope) about six gallons of Mild (1.036 if my napkin math is correct). This will be the first time I've attempted a double batch. Should be quite a learning experience . Any advice or past experiences greatly appreciated.
Chad