insane_rosenberg
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Last night I was reading through "Radical Brewing" by Mosher, and came across something interesting. An 'old fashioned' method of producing strong beers.
As Randy says:
"The process is straightforward. A mash is made as for a normal beer, then the runoff wort, instead of being boiled, is heated to strike temperature and then used as the liquor for a second mash..."
Now I have a couple of high gravity brews in the pipeline, and was worrying I'd have to bulk them up with extract as I could never mash that much grain in my urn. Now I find there is a way!
So the plan...
- Have my LHBS split my grain bill in two batches
- BIAB mash one batch as usual
- Lift out and squeeze
- Pour in sqeezed liquor and top up to original volume
- Empty and rinse bag, while urn gets back up to stike temp
- Retun bag to urn and add second batch of grain
- Continue on my happpy way to high gravity beer
I did a quick search and couldn't find any threads on this topic. Is anyone doing it already? Can anyone see any reason that i'd be wasting 7kg + of grain and 3 hours of my life?
Before ya start... <_<
There is currently no milk in the fridge and I can't afford any at the moment. Hence, no I am not going to to 3V right now.
As Randy says:
"The process is straightforward. A mash is made as for a normal beer, then the runoff wort, instead of being boiled, is heated to strike temperature and then used as the liquor for a second mash..."
Now I have a couple of high gravity brews in the pipeline, and was worrying I'd have to bulk them up with extract as I could never mash that much grain in my urn. Now I find there is a way!
So the plan...
- Have my LHBS split my grain bill in two batches
- BIAB mash one batch as usual
- Lift out and squeeze
- Pour in sqeezed liquor and top up to original volume
- Empty and rinse bag, while urn gets back up to stike temp
- Retun bag to urn and add second batch of grain
- Continue on my happpy way to high gravity beer
I did a quick search and couldn't find any threads on this topic. Is anyone doing it already? Can anyone see any reason that i'd be wasting 7kg + of grain and 3 hours of my life?
Before ya start... <_<
There is currently no milk in the fridge and I can't afford any at the moment. Hence, no I am not going to to 3V right now.