What can I make with these ingredients?

[madman960]

I do stove top boils in my 6 gallon low profile pot. I mix BIAB with traditional AG. I mash in my brew kettle. Near the end of the mash I put my BIAB bag into my fermentation bucket. I dump my grains and wort into the bag. I lift the bag slowly letting most of the wort to drain out. Then I set my colander in the bucket. From here I take a gallon of cold water and dump over the grains. Once cool enough I squeeze my grain bag. Dump my wort back into my bk, make sure I have my boil volume and start my boil.

Not sure how this effects my efficiency. I just got a hydrometer sample tube.

Bill

[jimjohson]

i got a 8 gal pot but we seem to follow near the same procedures, i mash in my pot and use my bottling bucket as a half a*sed turn to drain the wort and splarge. i have no 6 gal with my BS so i used a 5 and got the same numbers with the 60 min getting the higher ibus 39.1 vs 33.1 for 30 min. this is an expected 65% efficiency.

[mashani]

I've never used warrior that late in the boil, I've only used it as a bittering hop, so I don't know what to expect from it there. You *are* going to get some flavor from it that late. What flavor that is, I have no idea.

[madman960]

If I do a 60 min boil with warrior, will it be extremely bitter? I do not like beers that finish bitter. It is ok if they start bitter. I adjusted to 30 min based on IBUs. I am sure that is not standard practice. Just trying to get a balanced recipe. Brewing 2.5 gallons centennial blonde right now. The 1st 2.5 gallons used Notty yeast and this one will be US-05.

[madman960]

Still trying to figure out how to calculate actual efficiency over estimated efficiency. I am sure it's not a big deal yet as this is only my 3rd AG and 4th brew over all. I just picked up a hydrometer sample tube Wed.

Bill

[jimjohson]

no not extremely, as an APA it is just a little higher than middle way for the style in ibus (30-45 ibus). if you lower the warrior to 6g then it's 35.4. go to 5g then it's 31.7. what number would you like to be at? and how accuratly can you measure the hops? i mean can you weigh in grams? i notice you express it in oz.

not really that far ahead of you. i don't think our equipment will allow for real good efficiencies but it has improved mine over straight biab. as long as i'm reasonably close to the expected OG i'm a happy camper

[madman960]

I can only measure in oz currently. Hoping to get a digital scale soon that will measure in both.

I am not that concerned with efficiency as long as the beer tastes good.

[jimjohson]

i got lucky we(swmbo and i) were laied off during the depression so we managed to get parttime jobs cleaning apts after evictions.. i found 2 really good gram scales(can't imagin what they used them for) might be eaiser to talk here http://www.beerborg.com/index/taproom/

[Brewbirds]

On your hops are you using the AA% from the package or the data base. Since it changes from crop to crop you should always input the Alpha and Beta from the package to make sure your IBU is accurate.

Here are two scales from MYWEIGH.com that we use and are extremely happy with.

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