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   1. need your help...

      by db817, 14 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      My first attempt at a high gravity beer.
      
      12lbs 2-row
      8oz Munich
      8oz. Rye
      1lb flakes wheat
      1lb crystal 75
      2oz carafa II
      
      1oz magnum 60 mins
      1oz Columbus aroma
      2oz Columbus dry hop
      
      my goal is an original gravity of 1.071. Any good biab techniques I should follow in order to get 70% efficiency with this much grain? I have a 10 gallon kettle and a 15 gallon converted keg... Should I do a mini sparge with this mash to get more sugars extracted?
      
      Thanks in advance,
      Dan

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      Hi stux
      What sort of burner do you use with that size pot and brew?
      
      Brendan
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      Brendandrage
      13 years ago
   2. adjuncts!

      by db817, 14 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      It's official. I've drunk the kool-aid and I'm now a believer. I brewed a 5 gallon batch of brown mild using the biab, no sparge method and got 80% efficiency. Now my question is, can I use the biab method to brew with adjuncts? I would like to brew something like a classic American pilsner for the up coming summer, just don't want to embark on a recipe that is doomed to fail.

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      My experience with using adjuncts with BIAB is that maize in particular seems to produce a freer running mash that squeezes out to a smaller weight of dryer residue, with great efficiency.
      Apart from the Evil Malt Liquor I've made a few rice and maize beers such as Cream Ales. My favourite adjunct is ordinary supermarket Polenta, used at the ratio of 80% malt to 20% dry weight of Polenta, which is then boiled to a mush in a stockpot. I nearly always do a cereal mash as follows:
      
      I generally let...
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      Beachbum
      14 years ago

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