TheWhaleShark
Well-Known Member
So, I want to brew an all-grain RIS. It's a re-tooling of the very first beer I made, a partial-mash RIS. The partial mashing was easy, as the specialty grains only required steeping, and the extract is already converted. Just add to sufficiently hot water, boil, and BOOM! RIS. It was great!
I've made all-grain beers before, but never darker than, say, 12 SRM (an ESB). When I made those, the water adjustments were quite easy, and it was trivial to stay within recommended brewing ranges.
Well, the RIS recipe I came up with is hovering around 50 SRM. Needless to say, the alkalinity needed to mash that is quite high.
So, to get to point, I'm wondering what the best way to go about doing the RIS mash would be.
As I play around with water calculators, it looks like I need to add ridiculous amounts of chalk and baking soda, and that's driving up my other mineral contents past their recommended levels.
I'm thinking of mashing the base grains separately, and tweaking salts to nail my chloride:sulfate ratio. Then, I want to steep the specialty grains separately, then combine the two worts into the tun and lauter/sparge from there.
Will that work? I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't.
I've made all-grain beers before, but never darker than, say, 12 SRM (an ESB). When I made those, the water adjustments were quite easy, and it was trivial to stay within recommended brewing ranges.
Well, the RIS recipe I came up with is hovering around 50 SRM. Needless to say, the alkalinity needed to mash that is quite high.
So, to get to point, I'm wondering what the best way to go about doing the RIS mash would be.
As I play around with water calculators, it looks like I need to add ridiculous amounts of chalk and baking soda, and that's driving up my other mineral contents past their recommended levels.
I'm thinking of mashing the base grains separately, and tweaking salts to nail my chloride:sulfate ratio. Then, I want to steep the specialty grains separately, then combine the two worts into the tun and lauter/sparge from there.
Will that work? I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't.