bonecitybrewco
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Just wondering how everyone is doing split mashes. I am planning on doing the following -
Heat strike water to mash in temp
Mash with ~1/2 of grain bill while maintaining target mash pH via Bru'n water
Remove bag/squeeze, place into separate vessel and add sparge water/stir let sit for 15 mins.
Dump bag and add 2nd half of grains
Reheat 2nd runnings up to mash in temp and dough in, mash as scheduled
Remove/squeeze bag, place into 2nd vessel with 2nd runnings, stir and leave for 15 mins, stir again and dump grains.
Add "2nd runnings" to first runnings and proceed as per normal
Does this sound correct or am I missing something?
Target OG is 1.104 and I know getting that with straight mash/double batch sparge may be difficult even with accounted for efficiency loss. I am normally at 83% BH efficiency but haven't done this big of a beer and so calculated at 70%. Wondering if I should calculate lower or the same for this batch based on this procedure.
I do have a large enough vessel to do a full volume mash in the bag without a sparge but I imagine it would be horrible efficiency...
Any ideas/thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
Heat strike water to mash in temp
Mash with ~1/2 of grain bill while maintaining target mash pH via Bru'n water
Remove bag/squeeze, place into separate vessel and add sparge water/stir let sit for 15 mins.
Dump bag and add 2nd half of grains
Reheat 2nd runnings up to mash in temp and dough in, mash as scheduled
Remove/squeeze bag, place into 2nd vessel with 2nd runnings, stir and leave for 15 mins, stir again and dump grains.
Add "2nd runnings" to first runnings and proceed as per normal
Does this sound correct or am I missing something?
Target OG is 1.104 and I know getting that with straight mash/double batch sparge may be difficult even with accounted for efficiency loss. I am normally at 83% BH efficiency but haven't done this big of a beer and so calculated at 70%. Wondering if I should calculate lower or the same for this batch based on this procedure.
I do have a large enough vessel to do a full volume mash in the bag without a sparge but I imagine it would be horrible efficiency...
Any ideas/thoughts?
Thanks in advance!