hwall95
Well-Known Member
Hey guys,
Just been playing with a few ideas lately in terms of a biab setup. My main concern for brewing would be lack of efficency and cloudy/dirty beer so have done a bit of reading about solutions and have come up with the following drawing (Apologies for the shitty drawing, drew it on my laptop without a mouse). It's possibly an overkill but as long as it works well for a range of low gravity to high gravity beers for 20-25L batches and has a good consistency then I don't really mind.
So basically the main idea is mash in an insulated 50L pot which has a fake bottom primarily so I can raise the temp through direct heat without having to worry about scorchin' the bag or anything and hopefully to act as kinda filter. Then once mashing is done, it is drained into a 60L fermentor and then once the first part is finished draining I batch sparge.
Once all the wort is draining, I clean out the pot and add the wort back in, through it through a stainless steel filter from inside the hose just to hopefully clean out a few particles and hopefully produce cleaner beer.
Then the rest of the brewing is as per normal, boil, hops, whirlpool, cool/or no cool etc.
The main reason I'm using the 60L fermentor is we tend not to really do double matches often so i thought we may as well put it to good use, and it's fair cheaper then buying the buying another large pot. If anyone has any thoughts or advice it would be really appreciated. Still all ideas and won't get around to making this until mid-November so plenty of time to figure things out.
Cheers,
Harry
Just been playing with a few ideas lately in terms of a biab setup. My main concern for brewing would be lack of efficency and cloudy/dirty beer so have done a bit of reading about solutions and have come up with the following drawing (Apologies for the shitty drawing, drew it on my laptop without a mouse). It's possibly an overkill but as long as it works well for a range of low gravity to high gravity beers for 20-25L batches and has a good consistency then I don't really mind.
So basically the main idea is mash in an insulated 50L pot which has a fake bottom primarily so I can raise the temp through direct heat without having to worry about scorchin' the bag or anything and hopefully to act as kinda filter. Then once mashing is done, it is drained into a 60L fermentor and then once the first part is finished draining I batch sparge.
Once all the wort is draining, I clean out the pot and add the wort back in, through it through a stainless steel filter from inside the hose just to hopefully clean out a few particles and hopefully produce cleaner beer.
Then the rest of the brewing is as per normal, boil, hops, whirlpool, cool/or no cool etc.
The main reason I'm using the 60L fermentor is we tend not to really do double matches often so i thought we may as well put it to good use, and it's fair cheaper then buying the buying another large pot. If anyone has any thoughts or advice it would be really appreciated. Still all ideas and won't get around to making this until mid-November so plenty of time to figure things out.
Cheers,
Harry