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Ok so
To paint the picture of where a am. I live in a tower block pretty cramped, Some years back done the classic cooper 5 gallon dilute system Once or twice with pretty watery boring results, always was keen to try all grain but niver had the space or an understanding wife, last year I became aware that it is possible to do 4.5 litre (oor gallon) batches, in a Demijohn, So I bought a kit fi the brew store, loved the process and the beer came oot...no to bad, (better than the cooper can fi previous years)
I later found this PDF produced by Brewdog describing all their recipes but these were 20 litre/5 gallon recipes, then on joining Brewers friend learned I could scale a recipe doon to 5 litre.
Tried a few of these and again made some reasonable strong beer, (aside from the loss due to like 2 inches oh trub at the bottom of each DJ)
HOWEVER on taking this up again this year, there are issues I need to clear up. and some helpful guys on here have already helped me oot understanding water chemistry a bit better,
I know folk will hink why go to aw the effort for a gallon batch.. but small scale is ma only option, I cant get a bot to boil bigger than 10 litre so am pretty stuck on this tiny scale and want ti make it the best a can.
I use a 10litre pot on top of a cooker ring with a boil off ratio of aboot 2.4litres an hour, the original all grain kit I bought the first time suggested 5 litre mash water then sparge to bring it up to 8 litre for the boil.
The fact I could not get back doon to my target wart volume after 60 minutes meant in future batches I hud reduced the boil volume to like 7.4liters this ensured I got to my target volume however when aiming for an OG of 1.060ish a few times the OG has been 1.070
I am assuming this is connected with me reducing the boil volume,
Can somebody please clear up How I decide on mash and boil volume to hit my desired OG for this kind of situation, I know its connected with water to grain ratio kind oh thing but have seen different numbers, I should mention Im aware original BIAB was meant for full volume mash with no sparge but this way described is what i've taken on and find the idea oh a full volume mash being difficult for me to control mash temp.
Also is 60 minutes a compulsory time for the boil or can it be longer without negative effects
Any info would be much appreciated
Slainte
To paint the picture of where a am. I live in a tower block pretty cramped, Some years back done the classic cooper 5 gallon dilute system Once or twice with pretty watery boring results, always was keen to try all grain but niver had the space or an understanding wife, last year I became aware that it is possible to do 4.5 litre (oor gallon) batches, in a Demijohn, So I bought a kit fi the brew store, loved the process and the beer came oot...no to bad, (better than the cooper can fi previous years)
I later found this PDF produced by Brewdog describing all their recipes but these were 20 litre/5 gallon recipes, then on joining Brewers friend learned I could scale a recipe doon to 5 litre.
Tried a few of these and again made some reasonable strong beer, (aside from the loss due to like 2 inches oh trub at the bottom of each DJ)
HOWEVER on taking this up again this year, there are issues I need to clear up. and some helpful guys on here have already helped me oot understanding water chemistry a bit better,
I know folk will hink why go to aw the effort for a gallon batch.. but small scale is ma only option, I cant get a bot to boil bigger than 10 litre so am pretty stuck on this tiny scale and want ti make it the best a can.
I use a 10litre pot on top of a cooker ring with a boil off ratio of aboot 2.4litres an hour, the original all grain kit I bought the first time suggested 5 litre mash water then sparge to bring it up to 8 litre for the boil.
The fact I could not get back doon to my target wart volume after 60 minutes meant in future batches I hud reduced the boil volume to like 7.4liters this ensured I got to my target volume however when aiming for an OG of 1.060ish a few times the OG has been 1.070
I am assuming this is connected with me reducing the boil volume,
Can somebody please clear up How I decide on mash and boil volume to hit my desired OG for this kind of situation, I know its connected with water to grain ratio kind oh thing but have seen different numbers, I should mention Im aware original BIAB was meant for full volume mash with no sparge but this way described is what i've taken on and find the idea oh a full volume mash being difficult for me to control mash temp.
Also is 60 minutes a compulsory time for the boil or can it be longer without negative effects
Any info would be much appreciated
Slainte