Hi,
I have an interesting problem. I am doing a pumpkin beer, sort of all grain but with BIAB.
My recipe has 9 lb 2-row, 1.75lb specialty grains, and will have 5 lb of baked pumpkin for extra fermentables and pumpkin flavor.
This is a total of 16.75lb fermentables, which is WAY too much to do in my stovetop brewpot, so I was planning on doing something a little crazy.
I was planning on having two separate mashes that I then combine into one, as volume permits (and boil off volume will hopefully accommodate).
For the first mash, I was planning on taking 5lb of the 2-row and 5lb of the pumpkin, which will hopefully fit in my pot (barely) along with 2 gal of water. I will then sparge this first mash in 1 gallon of 170F water in a second pot before I discard this fraction.
Then comes the kicker: I was wondering if I could use 1 gallon of this pumpkin/2-row sparge water plus an additional gallon of tap water to mash the remaining 4lb of 2-row and specialty grain? I guess my main concern was whether the partly sugary/starchy water from the pumpkin/2-row second runnings would interfere with the specialty grain mash enzymes?
If I went about this route, I would then sparge this specialty grain fraction in a final 1 gallon of tap water.
All in all, this would give me 5 gallons of wort, of which 4.5 gallons give or take would initially fit into my brew kettle. As boiloff permits, I will then add back more and more of my specialty grain 2nd runnings until none remains. At the end, as I usually have to in my BIAB system, I will then top up my collected wort to 5.5 gallons.
If you followed me through the whole thing, I was wondering what you thought? Too convoluted? Would the specialty grain mash not work as well as it would with straight water?
Thanks!
Oh and if anyones interested in the recipe for added clarification, it's Jamil's pumpkin ale:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/jamil-pumpkin-spice-ale-cringe-80618/
I have an interesting problem. I am doing a pumpkin beer, sort of all grain but with BIAB.
My recipe has 9 lb 2-row, 1.75lb specialty grains, and will have 5 lb of baked pumpkin for extra fermentables and pumpkin flavor.
This is a total of 16.75lb fermentables, which is WAY too much to do in my stovetop brewpot, so I was planning on doing something a little crazy.
I was planning on having two separate mashes that I then combine into one, as volume permits (and boil off volume will hopefully accommodate).
For the first mash, I was planning on taking 5lb of the 2-row and 5lb of the pumpkin, which will hopefully fit in my pot (barely) along with 2 gal of water. I will then sparge this first mash in 1 gallon of 170F water in a second pot before I discard this fraction.
Then comes the kicker: I was wondering if I could use 1 gallon of this pumpkin/2-row sparge water plus an additional gallon of tap water to mash the remaining 4lb of 2-row and specialty grain? I guess my main concern was whether the partly sugary/starchy water from the pumpkin/2-row second runnings would interfere with the specialty grain mash enzymes?
If I went about this route, I would then sparge this specialty grain fraction in a final 1 gallon of tap water.
All in all, this would give me 5 gallons of wort, of which 4.5 gallons give or take would initially fit into my brew kettle. As boiloff permits, I will then add back more and more of my specialty grain 2nd runnings until none remains. At the end, as I usually have to in my BIAB system, I will then top up my collected wort to 5.5 gallons.
If you followed me through the whole thing, I was wondering what you thought? Too convoluted? Would the specialty grain mash not work as well as it would with straight water?
Thanks!
Oh and if anyones interested in the recipe for added clarification, it's Jamil's pumpkin ale:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/jamil-pumpkin-spice-ale-cringe-80618/