Challenging brew day tomorrow
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 5:11 pm
I have gone and formulated a recipe that I can't easily brew with my current equipment. I've done it once before, and I've modified the recipe this time, but still, it's going to be a challenge.
It's a Rye IPA, and it takes a lot of grain (plus rice hulls, because rye malt turns into glue, and the last thing I need is a stuck sparge). I calculated my strike water volume, and it comes to 4 gallons. I only have a 5-gallon mash tun. So 4 gallons of water is not going to work with that much grain displacing it.
So I have to split my grain bill a bit and do some of it as a BIAB at the same time that I'm doing the mash. I may be able to add the BIAB grain to the tun for the sparges, and save some time and space.
But I kind of feel like the guy in those old movies who tried to make a flying machine by attaching wings to his bicycle and rolling off a cliff.
Should be fun.
It's a Rye IPA, and it takes a lot of grain (plus rice hulls, because rye malt turns into glue, and the last thing I need is a stuck sparge). I calculated my strike water volume, and it comes to 4 gallons. I only have a 5-gallon mash tun. So 4 gallons of water is not going to work with that much grain displacing it.
So I have to split my grain bill a bit and do some of it as a BIAB at the same time that I'm doing the mash. I may be able to add the BIAB grain to the tun for the sparges, and save some time and space.
But I kind of feel like the guy in those old movies who tried to make a flying machine by attaching wings to his bicycle and rolling off a cliff.
Should be fun.
