Move To All Grain For Thirty Bucks

[flano]

Beer blending may interest you: eg. "Long Trail Brewing" company section of BYO article
http://www.byo.com/component/resource/arti...s-from-the-pros

"...We also sometimes blend beers to temper some of the extreme characteristics in a beer, like bitterness or alcohol levels..."

cheers for that.

 

[MarkT]

Just wanted to say Thank You to you Nick JD.

As I am a newbie to Extract and AG I really enjoyed the post and comments

 

[soundawake]

Bumping this thread because it deserves to be bumped.

I've been planning to do a BIAB for quite a while, I just need to buy a gas burner first from BeerBelly as my POS electric stovetop struggles to boil even 5 litres. Planning a 9L Coopers Pale Ale-esque recipe, are there any floating around?

 

[fnaah]

NickJD and others,

Many thanks for this fantastic thread, and the '20L Stovetop All Grain Aussie Lager' thread.

It's taken me about six months of perpetual reading and re-reading and confusion and doubt, but I finally gave in and had a crack yesterday with a 9L SMaSH (JWH Pilsener and SuperPride.)

Some things that went 'wrong' for me: got halfway through the mash, went looking for the hop sock that I thought i'd bought, turns out I hadn't. :/ Decided that i'd quickly rinse out the voile bag once the wort (or wait, is it liquor at that stage?? meh.) went back on the stove after the mash, worked a treat.

Was very surprised to find that, after the boil, I had 6.5L of 1070, and panicked, but then found your helpful "how much water shoudl I add to hit a particular gravity" formula [back on about page 28 of this thread...]

Doing a taste at different points of the boil was very educational (and delicious!!) - the progression from super-sweet to quite bitter was very interesting.

I've written down all the figures I think I'll need, how can I calculate my efficiency?

Thanks again for your awesome contribution. :beer:

 

[fnaah]

just checked my photos, apparently i used Simpsons Golden Promise, and not JWH pilsener. I always get confused at the LHBS 0_o

[edit]: hokay, so acording to their website, simpsons golden promise has an LDK of 308. I hit 1.070 after boil (volume of 6.5L), which gives a 'total gravity' of 455, and the 'potential gravity' is 616, giving a post-boil efficiency of 73%. Is that right?

I had 11L pre-boil at 1.058, which would mean... uh oh. Over-unity pre-boil efficiency. What have I done wrong?

 

[Nick JD]

Bumping this thread because it deserves to be bumped.

I've been planning to do a BIAB for quite a while, I just need to buy a gas burner first from BeerBelly as my POS electric stovetop struggles to boil even 5 litres. Planning a 9L Coopers Pale Ale-esque recipe, are there any floating around?

Try this.




CPA
Australian Pale Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 9.0
Total Grain (kg): 2.000
Total Hops (g): 12.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.049 (P): 12.1
Final Gravity (FG): 1.012 (P): 3.1
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.81 %
Colour (SRM): 6.0 (EBC): 11.8
Bitterness (IBU): 31.5 (Average)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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1.900 kg Pale Ale Malt (95%)
0.100 kg Caramalt (5%)

Hop Bill
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12.0 g Pride of Ringwood Pellet (8.3% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.3 g/L)

Misc Bill
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Single step Infusion at 63C for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 18C with WLP009 - Australian Ale


Recipe Generated with BrewMate

 

[Nick JD]

I've written down all the figures I think I'll need, how can I calculate my efficiency?

There's a few online efficiency calculators, or BeerSmith will sort it all out for you.

To be honest, I wouldn't worry about this sort of thing unless it's something you want to know.

 

[lukasfab]

i dont think I have really tried to calculate efficiency since I started brewing a year ago

 

[Pickaxe]

This thread is legendary. I'm going to go for it. I like the small batch size, and low risk.

NickJD - bloody legend.

Big W pot - check.
Esky - Check.
Bag - picking one up tomorrow with some grain.
Bloody helpful tutorial - check.

I'm sold.

 

[chunckious]

You wait Pickaxe, you got no idea. Prepare to be amazed at what that gear can do. :beerbang:

 

[citizensnips]

If you were brewing kits, you aint anymore

 

[Pickaxe]

It's the most exciting step. It's like I've been eating tinned spaghetti for my whole life and someone has just showed me what can be done with a pack of pasta, garlic, onion, oregano and tomatoes.

 

[chunckious]

Nah mate, you aint getting out of it that easy, your making your own pasta.
If you want good beer you gotta work for it.

 

[Pickaxe]

hahaha. it really doesnt seem like much more work than full extract anyway.

 

[lukiferj]

But well worth the effort!

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Can't wait to see you t the other end ofthis step

 

[fletcher]

sorry nick to ask a question for a beer you probably made yonks ago, but i noticed in the earlier pages you primed a bottle with skittles...how did that one turn out?

 

[citizensnips]

im gonna take a stab in the dark and say pretty average

 

[chunckious]

Like using a Belgium Yeast

 

[stm]

This thread is legendary. I'm going to go for it. I like the small batch size, and low risk.

NickJD - bloody legend.

Big W pot - check.
Esky - Check.
Bag - picking one up tomorrow with some grain.
Bloody helpful tutorial - check.

I'm sold.

What's the esky for?

 

[Pickaxe]

I'm gonna mash in it eventually, maybe let me up my batch sizes a bit. Once I have two pots, another fermenter I'll be able to mash a lot more grain in the esky, and do 2 small-med batches. Start experimenting a lot more with hops additions.

 

[NewtownClown]

Like using a Belgium Yeast

Belgium is the country. Belgian is the adjective.
Nothing wrong with Belgian yeast.
Guess you don't like Belgian beer...

 

[chunckious]

I feel like I'm Will Hunting.......nah not a big Belgian fan Clowny.

 

[eresh666]

Guys,

I went out and got my pot today from Big W (so long K&K) however was only able to pick up the below FV. Its marked for drinking water so I assume its ok to use I couldnt find any marked safe for food etc.

 

[dammag]

I did my first BIAB yesterday using basically the technique Nick outlined at the start of this topic.

I did a half batch in a 19L BigW pot. I used one of those butane camp stoves and it boiled 14L of wort no problem, I had to turn it down.

As a lot of people say it is easier than extract and grains and I am looking forward to my next brew day. No more extract for me!

 

[Phillo]

I reckon the majority of new AG brewers started with this thread. I certainly did.

 

[S R F]

So what happens next? Do you add yeast and brew it in the pot?

 

[dammag]

So what happens next? Do you add yeast and brew it in the pot?

I put aluminium foil over the top, cooled it in the bath and then poured it into my fermenter when cool and added the rehydrated yeast.

 

[Yob]

Guys,

I went out and got my pot today from Big W (so long K&K) however was only able to pick up the below FV. Its marked for drinking water so I assume its ok to use I couldnt find any marked safe for food etc.

You need to get one with the hole at the top, this one looks like it has a hole on the side which will make things difficult.

 

[wbosher]

Well, duh Yob, just turn your monitor around.