First Braumeister brew day water question.
First Braumeister brew day water question.
Hi guys,
I'm getting ready for my first braumeister brewday tomorrow, going from a recipe on the spediel site.
http://www.speidels-braumeister.de/38-d ... -beer.html
The recipe calls for "23 l of brewing water to start with plus sparging water"
I'm not going to bother sparging, so any ideas on how much water I should be treating?
I'm getting ready for my first braumeister brewday tomorrow, going from a recipe on the spediel site.
http://www.speidels-braumeister.de/38-d ... -beer.html
The recipe calls for "23 l of brewing water to start with plus sparging water"
I'm not going to bother sparging, so any ideas on how much water I should be treating?
Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
Sparge with 6 litres to maximise your efficiency. Lift the malt tube onto the stirrup leave the top filters in place and very slowly pour your sparge water, at 78 degrees, over them and leave to drain while you are raising the wort to boiling. After boil adjust volume to desired amount. Using this method you should achieve around 85 percent efficiency.Yosh wrote:Hi guys,
I'm getting ready for my first braumeister brewday tomorrow, going from a recipe on the spediel site.
http://www.speidels-braumeister.de/38-d ... -beer.html
The recipe calls for "23 l of brewing water to start with plus sparging water"
I'm not going to bother sparging, so any ideas on how much water I should be treating?
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Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
Also worth just stiring the top couple of inches of the grain when it is resting on the stirrups to stop the water vanishing down the hole in the middle of the grain bed...
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Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
With the malt tube resting on the stirrup and filters in place there should not be a hole in the middle because it is blocked by the spindlehambrook wrote:Also worth just stiring the top couple of inches of the grain when it is resting on the stirrups to stop the water vanishing down the hole in the middle of the grain bed...
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1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip
It's better to lose time with friends than to lose friends with time (Portuguese proverb)
Alone we travel faster
Together we travel further
( In an admonishing email from our golf club)
1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip
It's better to lose time with friends than to lose friends with time (Portuguese proverb)
Alone we travel faster
Together we travel further
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Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
Thanks guys, it worked out well. What a great bit of kit, the only problem I can see with the system is that I'm going to need to increase beer consumption to keep up with all the brewing I want to do.
Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
I stopped sparging after the first brew. Still get more than 70% efficiency.
It's whatever works for you.
It's whatever works for you.
Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
It works better with spraying. You need less grainMatt12398 wrote:I stopped sparging after the first brew. Still get more than 70% efficiency.
It's whatever works for you.
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." Dean Martin
1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip
It's better to lose time with friends than to lose friends with time (Portuguese proverb)
Alone we travel faster
Together we travel further
( In an admonishing email from our golf club)
1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip
It's better to lose time with friends than to lose friends with time (Portuguese proverb)
Alone we travel faster
Together we travel further
( In an admonishing email from our golf club)
Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
I'm sure it does. I don't have a lot of space in my kitchen at the moment and not having to set up the buffalo for sparge water was easier with the space I had. It was just one less thing to worry about. When I compared the efficiency gain and offset that against the time, clean up etc. of an additional pot and the cost of a few more 100 g of malt I didn't really feel like I was gaining much. I might go back to sparging if I can sell my house and move.
When you fork out the best part of two grand on a brewing system efficiency is quite low down on your concerns.
That's just me though.
When you fork out the best part of two grand on a brewing system efficiency is quite low down on your concerns.
That's just me though.
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Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
First time I brewed I did not sparge/rinse and I got 17 litres into the FV. When I started sparging I got 23-24 litres. You do the math...
Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
DeGarre wrote:First time I brewed I did not sparge/rinse and I got 17 litres into the FV. When I started sparging I got 23-24 litres. You do the math...
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Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
42l full volume mash. No sparge. Easier than heating water separately. Perhaps not as efficient but easier.
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Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
Different gravities though.DeGarre wrote:First time I brewed I did not sparge/rinse and I got 17 litres into the FV. When I started sparging I got 23-24 litres. You do the math...
What gravity were you aiming for on both brews and what did you achieve?
Pointless saying "I got more beer" if all you did was dilute what you had. Anyone could add water to a FV and increase volume but was the finished product what you intended?
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88 percent efficiency every time. Which means I use the grain bill for a 23 litre brew to make 25 litres. Surely that makes sense.kev93_10 wrote:Different gravities though.DeGarre wrote:First time I brewed I did not sparge/rinse and I got 17 litres into the FV. When I started sparging I got 23-24 litres. You do the math...
What gravity were you aiming for on both brews and what did you achieve?
Pointless saying "I got more beer" if all you did was dilute what you had. Anyone could add water to a FV and increase volume but was the finished product what you intended?
K
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1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip
It's better to lose time with friends than to lose friends with time (Portuguese proverb)
Alone we travel faster
Together we travel further
( In an admonishing email from our golf club)
1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip
It's better to lose time with friends than to lose friends with time (Portuguese proverb)
Alone we travel faster
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( In an admonishing email from our golf club)
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Re: First Braumeister brew day water question.
I sparge using 2 boiled kettles (4litres) 'diluted' with a kettle of tap water. Roughly 70 degrees scooped in with a jug.
Not much effort and saves getting another vessel going. Works for me.
Not much effort and saves getting another vessel going. Works for me.
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