Colin Williams
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I have just taken the plunge and decided to try my first all grain BIAB and I have failed miserably.
It was a Timothy Taylor Landlord Craftybrews kit and I am just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for my next brew.
Grain Bill 4.55kg
It is a 23l kit and I have a 32l Brupak boiler. I decided to do 20L mash with 11L cold dunk sparge. I knew this would leave me a little short but wanted to be under rather than over as I could always add some more water later on.
I seemed to hit my temps OK. 66c for 90 minutes. I stirred very well at the start and 5 times during the mash and applied a bit of heat twice to keep the temp.
After the mash I dunked and squeezed and then added the water to the wort for the main boil.
Boiled for 90 mins and then cooled.
I ended up with 21.5 litres which was what I expected. Tested the gravity which was 1.030 instead of 1.042
I then put the numbers into an efficiency calculator and got a very disappointing 53.3%
It went crazy fermenting for 1 day and now it is barely doing anything. I was going to tip it down the sink but I thought as I had done all the hard work I would see what it ends up like.
I'm wondering if I crush the grain better I will get a better result. Does My process of splitting the mash/sparge water sound right ?
Thanks
It was a Timothy Taylor Landlord Craftybrews kit and I am just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for my next brew.
Grain Bill 4.55kg
It is a 23l kit and I have a 32l Brupak boiler. I decided to do 20L mash with 11L cold dunk sparge. I knew this would leave me a little short but wanted to be under rather than over as I could always add some more water later on.
I seemed to hit my temps OK. 66c for 90 minutes. I stirred very well at the start and 5 times during the mash and applied a bit of heat twice to keep the temp.
After the mash I dunked and squeezed and then added the water to the wort for the main boil.
Boiled for 90 mins and then cooled.
I ended up with 21.5 litres which was what I expected. Tested the gravity which was 1.030 instead of 1.042
I then put the numbers into an efficiency calculator and got a very disappointing 53.3%
It went crazy fermenting for 1 day and now it is barely doing anything. I was going to tip it down the sink but I thought as I had done all the hard work I would see what it ends up like.
I'm wondering if I crush the grain better I will get a better result. Does My process of splitting the mash/sparge water sound right ?
Thanks