acarey
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Hi All,
May have bitten off a bit more than I can chew here with my second BIAB.
Picked up a recipe from Marks Home Brew in newcastle. Its his own creation Imperial IPA, I tasted some of it in store (pre carbonation) and it was awesome!
Anyways, I have BIRKO 40L urn. This recipe has 9.9 kg of grain with an expected OG of 1.087. Mark said I'd need to sparge and I'd need to do the calculations.
I punched it all into Brewmate and selected 'All Grain' instead of BIAB in the settings to give me the strike and sparge volumes and temps. Then I thought i'd get someone who actually knows what they are doing to look at the numbers and tell me if the numbers are right or if Ive missed something.
Strike volume: 29.7L
Sparge Water: 12.09L
60min mash
90 min boil
Question 1: Do you recon 9.9kg of grain will fit in the BIRKO with 29.7 litres of water?
Question 2: Are the two volumes above looking rightish?
Question 3: Should I have just done the Dr Smurto like everyone here told me to do?
Question 4: ..... any advice welcome....
ps. my first brew, which i posted the brewing of on here turned out bloody amazingly. I've almost finished it without really letting it age because I like beer and don't like waiting.
pps. Happy to post the actual grains if thats necessary (which it probably is) let me know
Thanks in advance
May have bitten off a bit more than I can chew here with my second BIAB.
Picked up a recipe from Marks Home Brew in newcastle. Its his own creation Imperial IPA, I tasted some of it in store (pre carbonation) and it was awesome!
Anyways, I have BIRKO 40L urn. This recipe has 9.9 kg of grain with an expected OG of 1.087. Mark said I'd need to sparge and I'd need to do the calculations.
I punched it all into Brewmate and selected 'All Grain' instead of BIAB in the settings to give me the strike and sparge volumes and temps. Then I thought i'd get someone who actually knows what they are doing to look at the numbers and tell me if the numbers are right or if Ive missed something.
Strike volume: 29.7L
Sparge Water: 12.09L
60min mash
90 min boil
Question 1: Do you recon 9.9kg of grain will fit in the BIRKO with 29.7 litres of water?
Question 2: Are the two volumes above looking rightish?
Question 3: Should I have just done the Dr Smurto like everyone here told me to do?
Question 4: ..... any advice welcome....
ps. my first brew, which i posted the brewing of on here turned out bloody amazingly. I've almost finished it without really letting it age because I like beer and don't like waiting.
pps. Happy to post the actual grains if thats necessary (which it probably is) let me know
Thanks in advance