Stuart Wilson
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Decided to try and develope a system for small scale brewing. Mainly as a way to try out test recipes, but also to make some super strong barley wine style brews that could go into 250 ml bottles.
Basically got a 2 gallon igloo and a grain bag. Had a first go yesterday.....just thought I'd give it a go and see what problems were.
Main issue was sparge / lautering. I didnt modify water cooler in any way, and grain in the bag tended to block outlet. Turned into quite a lot of buggering around. I ended up using far too much water so had a large volume of pretty dilute wort. After boiling down I ended up with about 6 L with an SG of 1.073.
I used 3.3 kg of grain so my overall efficiency was much lower than my large scale method.
Think I'm going to get a proper tap fitted (off to plumbing shop this AM) and rig up some sort of false bottom to stop grain bag blocking wort outflow. I'm sure this will improve sparging/ efficiency.
Interesting little project though.....
Basically got a 2 gallon igloo and a grain bag. Had a first go yesterday.....just thought I'd give it a go and see what problems were.
Main issue was sparge / lautering. I didnt modify water cooler in any way, and grain in the bag tended to block outlet. Turned into quite a lot of buggering around. I ended up using far too much water so had a large volume of pretty dilute wort. After boiling down I ended up with about 6 L with an SG of 1.073.
I used 3.3 kg of grain so my overall efficiency was much lower than my large scale method.
Think I'm going to get a proper tap fitted (off to plumbing shop this AM) and rig up some sort of false bottom to stop grain bag blocking wort outflow. I'm sure this will improve sparging/ efficiency.
Interesting little project though.....
