New Homebrewer here...To start off with I love big beers and hate that I lose effeciency as I increase grain weight. I have a design/solutioning background so in developing my BIAB process I have been trying to increase efficiency such that I don't lose effeciency when I add more grain. What I've come to realize is that efficiency as it relates to grain weight is largely determined by grain absorption rate. More grain, more sweet wort gets left behind. Developing a process to combat this problem was my goal.
For my last homebrew, according to brewfather, I managed 84% mash efficiency (82% brew house) with a 27.5 lb grain weight (OG 1.151 wayyyy overshot even for a big beer).
My process,
1. BIAB as normal.
2. Perform a mash out at 170f ish.
3. Heat 1 gallon of sparge water for a dunk sparge.
4. Lift bag and squeeze as much as possible. Then place bag in a big cooler.
5. Using proper sanitized gloves, a 6 gallon bucket and a colander and your 1 gallon sparge water, grab a smaller mesh BIAB bag and a handful of wet grains. Then squeeze the grains in the colander in the bucket, dunk sparge in the sparge water (seperate pot) and squeeze some more in the colander.
6. Repeat step 5 until all of the grains from the cooler are processed and the wort added back to the main pot.
7. Continue brew day as normal.
Again, fairly new here so I may be way out to left field here and over engineering what is supposed to be a simple BIAB. I still need to repeat this process a few times to ensure consistency but if I can do that it might work out.
Thoughts or critiques? Anything I could do differently or in a more efficient way?
For my last homebrew, according to brewfather, I managed 84% mash efficiency (82% brew house) with a 27.5 lb grain weight (OG 1.151 wayyyy overshot even for a big beer).
My process,
1. BIAB as normal.
2. Perform a mash out at 170f ish.
3. Heat 1 gallon of sparge water for a dunk sparge.
4. Lift bag and squeeze as much as possible. Then place bag in a big cooler.
5. Using proper sanitized gloves, a 6 gallon bucket and a colander and your 1 gallon sparge water, grab a smaller mesh BIAB bag and a handful of wet grains. Then squeeze the grains in the colander in the bucket, dunk sparge in the sparge water (seperate pot) and squeeze some more in the colander.
6. Repeat step 5 until all of the grains from the cooler are processed and the wort added back to the main pot.
7. Continue brew day as normal.
Again, fairly new here so I may be way out to left field here and over engineering what is supposed to be a simple BIAB. I still need to repeat this process a few times to ensure consistency but if I can do that it might work out.
Thoughts or critiques? Anything I could do differently or in a more efficient way?