I have two recipe books at home. Clone Brew by Tess and Mark Szamatulski & Brewing Classic Style by Zainasheff & Palmer. The 3 batches that i have done were form CB recipe.
They both focus on Partial mash and 5 gal batch. In CB most recipe are as follow:
Steep the grain in 3.8 L water, sparge with 1.9 L and top with water to make 5.7 L and bring to a boil. Add extract, and top with water to get to 9.5 L that you will boil for 60 min. When its done you cool down, drop in your primary and add water until you get 19.5 L (5 1/8 gal.)
In BCS, they are not following the same steps (actually there is no step). They simply mentioned that the pre boiled water is 7 gal (more or less depending on the recipe)
My questions are: In BCS do I steps my grain in the total water in my brew pot (I guess not since I think its something like 1 gallon of water per pound of steeping grain ...) ?
Will I end up with a 5 gal batch?
Which procedure is better?
Thanks!
They both focus on Partial mash and 5 gal batch. In CB most recipe are as follow:
Steep the grain in 3.8 L water, sparge with 1.9 L and top with water to make 5.7 L and bring to a boil. Add extract, and top with water to get to 9.5 L that you will boil for 60 min. When its done you cool down, drop in your primary and add water until you get 19.5 L (5 1/8 gal.)
In BCS, they are not following the same steps (actually there is no step). They simply mentioned that the pre boiled water is 7 gal (more or less depending on the recipe)
My questions are: In BCS do I steps my grain in the total water in my brew pot (I guess not since I think its something like 1 gallon of water per pound of steeping grain ...) ?
Will I end up with a 5 gal batch?
Which procedure is better?
Thanks!