Home brewing beer recipe

[Snipersunset]

Hi guys,

Just looking through home brew beer at the recipes and wanted to know how I can make a 20+ ltr brew from these recipes with me only having a 19 ltr pot? They all say steep in 27 ltr and that's not going to work in a 19 ltr pot. Do I just follow the recipe but in the small pot or do I need to do something else? And don't say go all grain as SWMBO is checking finances as we speak!!

Cheers

[oldbloke]

I'd scale down to suit the gear you have, but you might try brewing short and diluting at bottling time. Use a more dilute than usual sugar solution for priming.

[Hanglow]

You either do half batches, brew a stronger wort then liquor back, or do a partial mash and liquor back


I've got a 20l boiler and have to use extra pots to get up to 18/20l or so that I want. I can get 14l at most with the 20l boiler on its own after hop/trub loss etc.

[Snipersunset]

So if I brewed to the recipe in half the amount of water, making the wort concentrated, and then top up the brew length in the fermenter would that work? And would I add half the dme at the start and half near the end so it doesn't become to thick and burn?

Cheers

[oakerspocus]

Yes.... you can do that. I did this many times with a 15 litre pot. Made full brew lengths of some great beers. Up the weights of your hop additions though because of the higher Gravity wort in the boil.

[oakerspocus]

I did a how to for another forum but I won't link here.

Google "how to do a partial boil small pot extract brew" and you should find it....

[PhilB]

Hi Snipersunset

See p56, under "How much wort to boil?"

Cheers, PhilB

[Snipersunset]

Cheers oaker I thought you could but the way it's written doesn't make it clear