I attempted my first BIAB last weekend after about a year of extract/specialty grains. In addition to trying a new method, we tried a modified version of a recipe from this site.
Loon Lake Smoked Porter
We followed one poster's idea of upping the smoked grain. Additionally we added 10% more grain at our LHBS recommendation. We mashed 90 min and lost about 5 F over that time. Everything turned out fine except we were way high on our OG (1.7 vs 1.5), so we added water to bring it down.
My question really is what to expect now and should we have added any water since we added extra grain?
Loon Lake Smoked Porter
We followed one poster's idea of upping the smoked grain. Additionally we added 10% more grain at our LHBS recommendation. We mashed 90 min and lost about 5 F over that time. Everything turned out fine except we were way high on our OG (1.7 vs 1.5), so we added water to bring it down.
My question really is what to expect now and should we have added any water since we added extra grain?