BIAC - Brew in a Cube

[SergeMarx]

Here's tomorrow's plan.

1x 15l cube
2.2 kg LDME
15 litres boiling water
25g Citra

Method: Put everything in the cube. Lag with blankets to keep hot as long as possible for maximum possible hop isomerization.

Pitch when cool.

I was thinking of adding some steeping grains to the equation, but I figure this will be a decent enough experiment without them.

nb: 15l because i only have that much DME, and that'll give me a 1.050 batch.

 

[Hambone]

Very interesting. Not just because of the method but I have a 15l cube too.

 

[Yuz]

Interesting concept. Beats boiling & cooling the wort.
Might get a cube.

 

[Garfield]

Bacteria grows best between 5 and 65 degrees. Try to limit how long you have it in this range.

 

[manticle]

I can’t see this as a good idea.
I could be wrong.

 

[SeeFar]

Watching with interest.

 

[SergeMarx]

Well that was easy. All lumps dissolved without any help (no shaking required) and the cube temp held over 80c for the past hour (I popped it in a big esky to keep it warm)

Getting the malt in the cube was a bit tricky until I rigged up a paper funnel, then no issues. This one is destined for the keg, so I'll report back in about 10 days with a taste test... deffo looks promising! Excluding the water heat up time (about 40 mins in my urn), this took less than 5 minutes to bang together.

Now to keep going with the re-iterated mash RIS that is going to be my entire day by the looks.

 

[SergeMarx]

update #1 - Just had a taster of the wort. perfect as far as i can tell. Nice bitterness coming through, and plenty of hop aroma / flavour.