I would do a partial mash and top up with water and a tin of liquid malt extract. No need to boil the malt extract put it straight into the FV. Made some really nice beers like this with a 7l pot. Put your recipe into some brewing software as the smaller amount of water will affect hop utilization. You could boil 2 batches if you want as well and try a different yeast in each or hop schedule.
before buying a 25l stockpot, worth considering if you are upto lifting 20kg+ at arms length off the hob! (Gets pretty hot that boiling wort!). Assuming you need to move it for the chilling.
Thanks all for the responses not able to buy a larger pot possible able to buy another 10 liter one.
Any one have a thought on 2 batch boiling? So mash the grain boil then add it to my Cooper's fv, leave why boling hot why I boil the other well I say 10 liter it's more 7 the pot is only 10 full. So 2 batches of 7 liters boiling hot then top off with cold water to the 23 liter mark.
Guess like malt extract kit method.
Possibly add a tin or dry extract?
Hope makes sense.
If you buy the wilko 12L pot, which is actually 15L (for the princely sum of �ã18) , I've found you can fit 4.2kg of grain in their to do MAXI-BIAB. This means you can do a 23L brew of 1.040 OG or if you want to do a stronger brew you'll need to lower th brew length
ah! 1040 og :lol: 1047 was the lowest og i've done Im not adverse to lowering my brew length down to about 20 litres, but anything less isn't worth getting out of bed for :wink:
I did this today:
brew 29 :
20 litres chase spring water
250g choc
250g roasted barley
250g aromatic
500g dark crystal
3kg medium dme
500g dwe
500g dark candi sugar
50g simcoe pellets
mangrove jacks m42 strong ale yeast
3 litres water strike temp 73 for a 1:10 hour mash at 65. the grains went into a smaller pot and into oven on slow cook setting to keep temp at 65.
poured the grains via a strainer into the bigger wilco's boil pot. sparged with 3 litres 80 deg water. added 1 litre water then stirred in all the dried extract and candy sugar
10 min boil then poured wort onto the bagged hops in fv and let sit for 30 mins.
topped up to 21.5 litres
yeast re-hydrated with 140ml water at 34 deg C
pitched at 32
og 1080c
so this will be around 9%.
Exactly what i do myself,Use my 12ltr to boil and the smaller one for a dunk, however my biab's are mostly 5/6 litre batches.I think I'm gonna buy another 12l pot from wilkos. Using my casserole pot (shallower 5l) for the dunk sparge.
This way I can achieve a bigger volume of our AG instead of partial. Can't believe I didn't think of this sooner, but it's nice to know both ways I guess.
This way the hobs will just about reach 100c in a reasonable time and I'll just balance the ingredients out between the two pots.
I'll obviously forget nearer the time to buy some ice to cool them down which I'm sure will add to the fun
9%, A light supping ale then? :lol:
"Im not adverse to lowering my brew length down to about 20 litres, but anything less isn't worth getting out of bed for :wink:"
If you buy the wilko 12L pot, which is actually 15L (for the princely sum of ã18) , I've found you can fit 4.2kg of grain in their to do MAXI-BIAB. This means you can do a 23L brew of 1.040 OG or if you want to do a stronger brew you'll need to lower th brew length
Can you explain the maxi part myqul.
I can't see much online about it, nothing much on YouTube. It might save me the 18 quid.
If it's similar to partial then I'll prob leave it as I'm trying to stick to AG for the recipies in the CAMRA book
Cheers
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