Going to try my first BIAB with this, after doing 4-5 extract kits. I took this recipe to the local brew house and came back with this:
Amount Item
8.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US
1.00 lb Crystal 10 (sub for Caraaroma)
0.50 lb Carapils (sub for) Carafoam
0.50 lb Victory (sub for Melanoiden Malt)
1.00 oz Crystal
1.00 oz Cascade
1 Pkgs California Ale (White Labs #WLP001)
for the honey, I just can pick up a lb of something at the grocery store?
You guys mind double checking my process?
Heat up water for full 5g boil to 162, then place grains in bag, stir, cover and let sit for an hour (try to keep temp around 152 or so). Then "mash out" and heat to around 168 and then remove the grain bag. Then bring to boil and process at normal? With the crystal hops going in at 60 minutes and then the cascade going in at 30 min. At the end of the hour boil, stir in the honey, cool, and ferment as normal?
by subbing both carraoma and melanoiden that took out the red from the beer. crystal 120 is a sub for carraoma not crystal 10. what you'll have is a very tasty beer by the time its done, but it won't be the same beer.
now, here's how you need to do this BIAB (I do about 95% of mine as BIAB).
water needed. absorption + oil off + batch size + trub loss = water needed. absorption can be determined by weight of grains in lbs * 0.06 =absorption. In this case you have 10 lbs of grain 10*0.06 =.60 gallons absorption.
the for a 5 gallon batch at the end of fermentation, shoot for 5.5 gallons in the carboy. account that extra .5 gallons to trub loss.
5+.60+.5+ boil off= water needed. as an example, boil off of 1.25 gallon in an hour. 5+.6+.5+1.25= 7.35 gallons of water needed. heat that amount (round up to 7.5 gallons) to approx 158-160F. put bag in kettle, add crushed grains. stir like crazy to make sure there are no dough balls and to help distribute the heat evenly. once at 152F, put the lid on, wrap the kettle in blankets, old sleeping bags anything that will insulate it. then walk away for 90 minutes. don't touch it. don't stir it. don't adjust the heat. just walk away. after 90 minutes, stir the grains, pull the bag and squeeze as much wort out as you can.
then boil like any other beer. add the hops as the recipe says. at flame out add the honey. stir to make sure it gets dissolved. if you use a hop sack (always a good idea) then after chilling, dump it all into the carboy. pitch the yeast and wait. if no hop sack was used (why not?) then whirlpool to get the hot and cold break to collect in the center and then rack to the carboy.
what you'll end up with is a great tasting beer. the brew day will take you about 4 hours start to finish (including cleanup)