GrumpyPaul
Well-Known Member
Hi Guys
I just finished my very first AG brew using BIAB.
The recipe is below - was a 10 litre batch. (I just wanted to do a smallish batch for the first go until I knew what I was doing.
I started with 12 litres in the urn.
Strike temp was 71 - aiming for 67 after the grain went in.
After the hour it was at 64.5 (so I only lost a couple of degrees during the mash)
I "sparged in a bucket" by rinsing the grain bag with a further 1.5 litres of water (at about 67 degrees)
The recipe i used suggested taking 2 litres out of the wort - put it in pot and boil to reduce by half (to caramilse the flavours) then put it bact into the urn with the boing wort.
So I started with 13.5 litres (12+1.2-1) in the urn - at the end of the boil, according to the site glass I only had 8 litres left.
Is it normal to lose so much during the boil?
So I added 2 litres of cold water into the fermenter (just like I would wiht and extract/kit) to bring it back up to 10 litres.
Hydrometer sample just before pitching say og was 1072 - a lot higher than the 1062 that Brewmate calculated.
Is this because I boiled off so much and condensed it down?
Is this going to ruin my beer?
Heres the recipe (it will be put onto rum soaked oak chips in the secondary when its ready)
Is that a Gunn in your pocket (Scottish Light 80/-)
Original Gravity (OG): 1.062 (P): 15.2
Final Gravity (FG): 1.016 (P): 4.1
Alcohol (ABV): 6.09 %
Colour (SRM): 19.6 (EBC): 38.6
Bitterness (IBU): 26.9 (Average)
87.72% Maris Otter Malt
8.77% Caramalt
3.51% Chocolate
1.8 g/L Fuggles (5.7% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
4.0 g/L Oak Chips @ 0 Days (Secondary)
Single step Infusion at 67C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes
Fermented at 20C with Wyeast 1728 - Scottish Ale
Recipe Generated with BrewMate
I just finished my very first AG brew using BIAB.
The recipe is below - was a 10 litre batch. (I just wanted to do a smallish batch for the first go until I knew what I was doing.
I started with 12 litres in the urn.
Strike temp was 71 - aiming for 67 after the grain went in.
After the hour it was at 64.5 (so I only lost a couple of degrees during the mash)
I "sparged in a bucket" by rinsing the grain bag with a further 1.5 litres of water (at about 67 degrees)
The recipe i used suggested taking 2 litres out of the wort - put it in pot and boil to reduce by half (to caramilse the flavours) then put it bact into the urn with the boing wort.
So I started with 13.5 litres (12+1.2-1) in the urn - at the end of the boil, according to the site glass I only had 8 litres left.
Is it normal to lose so much during the boil?
So I added 2 litres of cold water into the fermenter (just like I would wiht and extract/kit) to bring it back up to 10 litres.
Hydrometer sample just before pitching say og was 1072 - a lot higher than the 1062 that Brewmate calculated.
Is this because I boiled off so much and condensed it down?
Is this going to ruin my beer?
Heres the recipe (it will be put onto rum soaked oak chips in the secondary when its ready)
Is that a Gunn in your pocket (Scottish Light 80/-)
Original Gravity (OG): 1.062 (P): 15.2
Final Gravity (FG): 1.016 (P): 4.1
Alcohol (ABV): 6.09 %
Colour (SRM): 19.6 (EBC): 38.6
Bitterness (IBU): 26.9 (Average)
87.72% Maris Otter Malt
8.77% Caramalt
3.51% Chocolate
1.8 g/L Fuggles (5.7% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
4.0 g/L Oak Chips @ 0 Days (Secondary)
Single step Infusion at 67C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes
Fermented at 20C with Wyeast 1728 - Scottish Ale
Recipe Generated with BrewMate