Hey all,
I'm planning on brewing an imperial cherrywood smoked saison (shooting for something like matt's burning rosids from stone) this weekend. This is a 10.5% beer so i'll be mashing 10# pils, 3# cherrywood smoked malt, 2# wheat, and 1# munich (adding 2lb sugar later on to get the rest of the gravity points).
I'm thinking that this might be a good opportunity to do a parti-gyle brew and re-mash with a few more pounds of pils to make a normal saison. The only problem with this plan is the cherrywood smoked malt. Would it work to keep the smoked malt in a bag which I would put into the cooler mash-tun for the imperial saison mash and then take out for the second mash (leaving the rest of the grain in the cooler)? I know that I would probably still get some flavor in the second mash, but not nearly as much. Would I get proper conversion through the bag?
Thanks!
I'm planning on brewing an imperial cherrywood smoked saison (shooting for something like matt's burning rosids from stone) this weekend. This is a 10.5% beer so i'll be mashing 10# pils, 3# cherrywood smoked malt, 2# wheat, and 1# munich (adding 2lb sugar later on to get the rest of the gravity points).
I'm thinking that this might be a good opportunity to do a parti-gyle brew and re-mash with a few more pounds of pils to make a normal saison. The only problem with this plan is the cherrywood smoked malt. Would it work to keep the smoked malt in a bag which I would put into the cooler mash-tun for the imperial saison mash and then take out for the second mash (leaving the rest of the grain in the cooler)? I know that I would probably still get some flavor in the second mash, but not nearly as much. Would I get proper conversion through the bag?
Thanks!
