MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
I used my fairly recently bought 12L Wliko stock pot to do a maxi-biab for the first time today. I did the, 'how much water and grain can I fit in' calculations based proportionaly on my previous 18.5L pot. But there was much more head room than there should have been. But I just put it down to me being hopeless at maths and I'd done the calculations wrong. I just planned to re-adjust the grain and water amount next time.
Normally with my Maxi-BiaB proceedure I just do the boil and as the boil off occurs I keep the pot topped up with boiling water to the maximum I think I can get away with without a boil-over. Then I jug the wort through a seive, to strain the hops out, into my no-chill FV and seal.
My no-chill FV has graduations on it. I was somewhat surprised to see it reading 13L! As mention I keep the pot topped up to as much as I can from the brim which usually means there's about 1/2L left. So unless my particular pot is able to bend the laws of physics, it's 13.5L not 12L. I'm not complaining mind - it just means I can make more beer in one go :party:
The only other possible explantion I can think of is that the graduation marking on my coopers no-chill FV are wrong. But I use them when making my dilution calculations and they're always spot on.
Normally with my Maxi-BiaB proceedure I just do the boil and as the boil off occurs I keep the pot topped up with boiling water to the maximum I think I can get away with without a boil-over. Then I jug the wort through a seive, to strain the hops out, into my no-chill FV and seal.
My no-chill FV has graduations on it. I was somewhat surprised to see it reading 13L! As mention I keep the pot topped up to as much as I can from the brim which usually means there's about 1/2L left. So unless my particular pot is able to bend the laws of physics, it's 13.5L not 12L. I'm not complaining mind - it just means I can make more beer in one go :party:
The only other possible explantion I can think of is that the graduation marking on my coopers no-chill FV are wrong. But I use them when making my dilution calculations and they're always spot on.