partial BIAB for parti-gyle?

[jro238]

Hey all,

I posted this a week or so ago in all grain and didn't get any replies so I'm going to give it a try in here


I'm planning on brewing an imperial cherrywood smoked saison (shooting for something like matt's burning rosids from stone). 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 2-row 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!

 

[roastquake]

If you don't want smoke to carry over into the second brew, you may want to mash it separately. That's an awful lot of smoked malt though.

 

[jro238]

If you don't want smoke to carry over into the second brew, you may want to mash it separately. That's an awful lot of smoked malt though.

Not a bad idea to do a separate mash--hadn't thought of doing it that way. I might also step the smoked malt back a bit. Morebeer suggested to use between 10 and 20% and this is currently about 16.7% of the grain bill.