BrewByBerg
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Hey guys,
I just had my second BIAB yesterday with a 16.5lb grain bill. I was making a double IPA, and shooting for 1.080 gravity.
In beer smith I have just selected the 5 gallon all grain equipment setup and this put me in range for 1.080
I mashed for an hour, and instead of squeezing my 16lb grain bag, I just dumped about 2.5 gallons of 170degree water (sparged) on my grain bag and let it run through. My final gravity was around 1.062....
I later was playing around with beer smith and selected the BIAB option and tweeked my numbers and now my Target OG was 1.067, much closer to my OG.
Is this normal for BIAB? Using this much grain and I can only get an OG of 1.062? Should I have squeezed the bag? Please let me know your thoughts, thanks!
I just had my second BIAB yesterday with a 16.5lb grain bill. I was making a double IPA, and shooting for 1.080 gravity.
In beer smith I have just selected the 5 gallon all grain equipment setup and this put me in range for 1.080
I mashed for an hour, and instead of squeezing my 16lb grain bag, I just dumped about 2.5 gallons of 170degree water (sparged) on my grain bag and let it run through. My final gravity was around 1.062....
I later was playing around with beer smith and selected the BIAB option and tweeked my numbers and now my Target OG was 1.067, much closer to my OG.
Is this normal for BIAB? Using this much grain and I can only get an OG of 1.062? Should I have squeezed the bag? Please let me know your thoughts, thanks!