How To Do Extract Brew?

[bum]

Depends. Are you making a Saison?

 

[chappo1970]

Would it be going too far to get some high heels as well? Maybe a little makeup?

... I thought that was manditory BIAB uniform so didn't bother mentioning it :icon_cheers:

 

[glaab]

1.) In a pot with 4L of water, add 300g of dried malt.

2.) Bring to the boil and add your bittering hops (~20g in a permeable bag of some sort).

3.) Wait 40 minutes. Throw in another bag.

4.) Wait ten minutes. Throw in your third hop bag.

5.) Wait five minutes. Fill up your fermenter with goop/dried malt/dextrose (~3kg).

6.) Throw away the first two hop bags (keep the bags for future use).

7.) Pour into your fermenter the pot's liquid - including the third hop bag.

8.) Stir to dissolve. Top up with cold water. Add yeast.

I do extract similar to Nick but it's interesting to see how others do it, if I see any methods I think are an improvement to mine I'll pirate them. :beerbang:

how I do is,

1] mix 200g DME in 2l water, gives about 1040 for hops utilization and adding 2l boiling wort to the
fermenter I can pitch straight away, even if 23C is a little warm.
2] throw hops additions straight in, [at times as per recipe of course] too lazy to wash bags and the hops settles in the yeast cake anyway, I leave everything in primary 14 days min.
3] if the last hops addition is for aroma at flameout, I get it into fermenter as quick as possible and top up with cold water before the aroma evaporates.
4] pitch yeast!
5]what happened to Chappo's voice?, when I used to read his posts he had Peter Griffins voice!, anyone else notice that?

 

[brettprevans]

i think i only ever had a max of about 11L of hot wort when doing extract. then add cold water up to desired volume and its cooled down significantly. never had any problems. i now use my big extract pot for AG decoction mashes. big pots always come in handy

 

[Nick JD]

5]what happened to Chappo's voice?, when I used to read his posts he had Peter Griffins voice!, anyone else notice that?

Now he sounds Irish. :unsure:

 

[ianh]

I do extract similar to Nick but it's interesting to see how others do it

To me extract brewing is all about specialty grains, I tend to use between 0.3 - 0.8 kg per brew.

Put down an English Northern Brown this morning (after using my spreadsheet)

2.3 kg Light dried Malt
0.15 kg Caraaroma
0.15 kg Carapils
0.20 kg Choc Chic Malt 600
20 g Northern Brewer 60 mins
20 g Fuggles 20 mins
20 g Fuggles Flameout

1 Steep grains in 3.4 litres of water at 65C (kettle holds 1.7litres) for 30 mins.
2 Sparge grains with 6.8 litres (4 kettles) water at 65C
3 Add 1 and 2 to 20 litre stockpot and added 830 g of Light Dry Malt (to bring SG to 1.040)
4 Bring to boil, add Northern Brewer hops.
5 After 40 Mins add 20 g Fuggles
6 After 50 Mins add Whirlfloc tablet
7 After 60 Mins add rest of Light Dried Malt and 20 g Fuggles, flameout
8 Cool in ice/cold water
9 Half fill fermenter with cold water, add contents of stockpot (after removing 2 hop bags, flameout hops not in a bag) and make up to 23 litres
10 I ferment for 7/8 days then rack to secondary with 1tsp of Gelatine disolved in hot water for another 6/7 days.
11 I rack again onto my bulk priming solution, then bottle.

First time using liquid yeast (1099 Whitbread) for this brew.

The above brew should be about 4.2% alc, if you want one about 5% up the DME to 2.8 kg and the Northern Brewer to 22 grams

 

[WarmBeer]

I've been doing full volume extract boils (i.e. boiling the entire 23 lt including all the extract) my last couple of brews, then straight into a cube for no-chilling overnight. Seems to work fine, and has the added advantage of better utilising the hops.

I'm getting my equipment ready for the move to AG, so full volume boil allows me to calibrate things like evaporation %, and whether my kitchen stove can boil that amount (answer: slowly!)

 

[Pennywise]

I doubt boiling half volumes with half the extracts makes any difference to hop utilisation, you still have the same gravity. It is a good idea to do it for the reason you are though, to calculate evaporation etc. That's another thing I was going to mention before, about how long it takes to bring that much to a boil without a decent flame/element, I don't see the reason to wait that long when you don't have to, it takes long enough to bring 10L to a good boil on my stove let alone 25.