Help on a 2nd All Grain brew

[Grant Marshall]

Hi Guys,

I've brewed a bunch of extract kits which has turned out really nice, started with a couple mangrove jacks, coopers and then a WilliamsWarn kit which has been the best so far. The last kit is when I experimented with a bit of mini-mash - I added 200g of Special B Belgian Malt, 30g of Coriander seeds and 20g of Orange Zest - steeped for 15 mins, and added Brew Enhancer 20 the WW Extract kit. Heated for 10 mins, added it all to the fermenter and topped it off to 23l.

 

I was wondering about trying something similar with A.G. Methods. But I'm up against a few things:

 

No gas burner - have to do it all on an induction hob, so 30l pots are out of the question.

No 30l pot either - biggest one takes around 8-9l.

 

So here is my recipe and what i was planning to do was to make an 6-8l wort on the stove with grains, and hops etc, then top it up to 13-15l and make a smaller batch. In theory I could make this a 23l brew and top it up with unhopped LME (or as I've read a coopers lager kit after the boil - as they are pretty low in IBU's).

2kg - Gladfields Lager malt

1kg - Caramunich malt

500g - Wheat Malt

500g - Oats

250g - Dextrose - last 10 mins of the boil

100g - Maltodextrose - last 10 mins of the boil

Mash for 60 mins at 60C (BIAB - no sparging)
Wort would be around 6-8l while on the boil.

30g Styrian goldings hops (3.6% AA) - Boil for 60 mins

Cool wort to 23-24C and pitch Breferm Universal Yeast (6g)

 

I wanted to make something along the lines of a Belgian Tripel, but I prefer beers with a more orangey amber colour (hence the caramunich). Low IBU's and a sweeter malty flavour.

 

What are your thoughts on doing this and topping up the wort to 13-15l? Would that mean I would only get 35-40% efficiency?

Some online recipe calculators have said at that efficiency I should still be getting 6-7% ABV but I thought it would be less than that - maybe around 3%?

[Paul Finney]

Check out the John Palmer all grain video on youtube. It is pretty good 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5J8S5nBdUc

Re the recipe, i agree with Barry, remove the wheat, oats and the two sugars (when doing kits you tend to add these in to either build up ABV or body but when all graining you control this by the temp you mash at and make up of your grain recipe)

With the size pot you have you are probably best partial mashing for now until you can get access to an All grain setup