Partial Mashing

[beerbelly]

have been doing extract brewing and steeping speciality grains. But i would to try mashing some grains. have built a mash tun out of a esky with a copper manifold.my question is when you start mashing how do you calcalate how much extract to use My normal recipe would use 2500gr malt light extract 75g crystal malted grain &500g dextrose.so if mashed 2kilos of pale malt how much of the extract&dextrose would i cut out

 

[James Squire]

Hey beerbelly,

Im no expert myself (just fermenting my first partial!) but from the reading I've done i'd suggest that 2 kilo's of grain would equate to around half of your required fermentable content.

Therefore I'd go with 2 kg's grain and 1.5kgs Liquid malt extract. Pass on the Dex.

Regards,

JS

 

[Jazzafish]

Download the trial of Promash
www.promash.com I think. You can enter in all the fields for a recipe and it will give you a pretty close outcome.

When the trail ends, download beersmith and give that a go.

After both trial expired I downloaded pro mash as I liked it better. Others like Beersmith better. But they both make all the calculations for you and are pretty close to the mark.

 

[Trough Lolly]

Or...you can plug the recipe into the Beer Recipator for nothing.

heres the link...

Cheers,
TL

 

[beerbelly]

thanks guys that gives me something to work on. going to do afull boil as well so i purchased a diffusion stone @filter from G&G to aerate the wert and would apperiate any feed back about using one.

 

[Trough Lolly]

By the way, I just posted my partial mash Guinness recipe on another thread. I also described in detail how I do a partial mash using a 6 pack esky and kitchen equipment!

Click here if you wanna have a read...!

Cheers,
TL