Cm2, Fourstar, Brendo, Maple Mega Barleywine Brewday

[brendo]

alright fellas - I have spoken to the missus and April 10 is a goer - it is now in her diary, on the calendar and if anything else comes up between now and then I am officially excused from attending!!

Brendo

 

[Fourstar]

April 10th.... lock it in!

 

[brettprevans]

lock the 10th in Eddie. missus cleared me

so final prep for the day...

lock in final recipe incl hops
final hop selection hops: Centennial, Simcoe, Amarillo, columbus

partigyle recipe. that last recipe you knocked up 4*, i recon we go with.

Fents' tun: 4* did you want to pick that up when you pick up the simcoe from greensie?

 

[Fourstar]

lock in final recipe incl hops
final hop selection hops: Centennial, Simcoe, Amarillo, columbus

partigyle recipe. that last recipe you knocked up 4*, i recon we go with.

Fents' tun: 4* did you want to pick that up when you pick up the simcoe from greensie?

Well dependant on the tun size, i'm happy to get fents tun when i get some simcoe if he's willing to part with it.

As for the partigyle recipe? Care to enlighten me, or do you mean the SN Celebration Ale clone?? If we where using that recipe (or something similar considering our current grain bill), it would mean we are adding 5-8%~ more light/dark crystal blend to it, equal to its residual efficiency (if im not arsing up my maths). E.g. 10% left of a theoretical 85% max efficiency it would mean .5-1% extra~ of grain (500g or so).

Otherwise if thats out and we are starting with this grain in the tun from the BW, what where we planning on adding to it?

Base Malt 92 %
Biscuit Malt 5 %
Crystal, Dark 3 %

 

[brettprevans]

Well dependant on the tun size, i'm happy to get fents tun when i get some simcoe if he's willing to part with it.

As for the partigyle recipe? Care to enlighten me, or do you mean the SN Celebration Ale clone?? If we where using that recipe (or something similar considering our current grain bill), it would mean we are adding 5-8%~ more light/dark crystal blend to it, equal to its residual efficiency (if im not arsing up my maths). E.g. 10% left of a theoretical 85% max efficiency it would mean .5-1% extra~ of grain (500g or so).

Otherwise if thats out and we are starting with this grain in the tun from the BW, what where we planning on adding to it?

Base Malt 92 %
Biscuit Malt 5 %
Crystal, Dark 3 %

ahh ok, i imagined the partigyle recipe. sorry.

agree with the extra 5-8% more grain. no reason not to go with the % you've proposed. Maybe chuck a little wheat in there for head, just in case.

i also forgot that Fents' tun might not fit in your car. if not let me know and I'll go pick it up from Fents.

 

[Maple]

Maybe chuck a little wheat in there for head, just in case.

Hold on, I'm confused (again). If we add anything back into the mash that is not a steeping grain, this will require a re-mash, no? i.e. the wheat will be all starch that is not converted, and will need to be, but crystal on the otherhand is sugar in the waiting. are we re-mashing for the PG?

As long as you folks have a plan, I'm happy to run the bbq and relax....

 

[brendo]

Hold on, I'm confused (again). If we add anything back into the mash that is not a steeping grain, this will require a re-mash, no? i.e. the wheat will be all starch that is not converted, and will need to be, but crystal on the otherhand is sugar in the waiting. are we re-mashing for the PG?

As long as you folks have a plan, I'm happy to run the bbq and relax....

I wouldn't see an issue with having to remash some extra grain if need be - not like we are going to be in a hurry for the partigyle runnings in a hurry anyway given we will have two big kettles rather busy at the time...

Brendo

 

[Fourstar]

Hold on, I'm confused (again). If we add anything back into the mash that is not a steeping grain, this will require a re-mash, no? i.e. the wheat will be all starch that is not converted, and will need to be, but crystal on the otherhand is sugar in the waiting. are we re-mashing for the PG?
As long as you folks have a plan, I'm happy to run the bbq and relax....

yes, that is correct

I wouldn't see an issue with having to remash some extra grain if need be - not like we are going to be in a hurry for the partigyle runnings in a hurry anyway given we will have two big kettles rather busy at the time...
Brendo

we can always avoid having to remash and deal with conversion in such a big deadspace/large dispersion of enzymes by simply adding carapils instead!

 

[brettprevans]

Hold on, I'm confused (again). If we add anything back into the mash that is not a steeping grain, this will require a re-mash, no? i

yup ok i stuffed up. forot about the remash part.

we can always avoid having to remash and deal with conversion in such a big deadspace/large dispersion of enzymes by simply adding carapils instead!

or by adding wheat extract. either way im cool. maybe go the carapils.

 

[Fourstar]

or by adding wheat extract. either way im cool. maybe go the carapils.

KISS approach. Unless you have some extract you want to use, im sure brendo or msyelf are happy to shed 500g from our 12+kg we have lying around.

 

[brendo]

KISS approach. Unless you have some extract you want to use, im sure brendo or msyelf are happy to shed 500g from our 12+kg we have lying around.

yep... Carapils is a better solution...

 

[Fourstar]

yep... Carapils is a better solution...

Its the "only" solution! B)

 

[Fents]

tun is 120L. will fit in the backseat of your magna 4* or boot maybe...def on backseat tho.

 

[Fourstar]

tun is 120L. will fit in the backseat of your magna 4* or boot maybe...def on backseat tho.

ohh i recon it would be a squeeze todo the whole batch in that monster. who had the next biggest tun? atleast that way its two tuns instead of 4!

 

[brettprevans]

i think the 3 of us have the same sized tun ie ~50L.

 

[brendo]

yep... mine is a 50l tun...

 

[Fourstar]

mines 38L cooler.

looks like its fents and somone elses tun.

 

[brendo]

mines 38L cooler.

looks like its fents and somone elses tun.

that's no problem... easy enough to bring one... if needed, although I am sure we can probably use Dave's if it is of a similar volume.

 

[brettprevans]

sorry i meant, brendan, Dave and myself have a ~50L tun

 

[Maple]

sorry i meant, brendan, Dave and myself have a ~50L tun

yep 50L tun already here