New Brunswick Craft Brewers Association
Brewing => Technique => Topic started by: fakr on February 10, 2012, 11:30:38 AM
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Has anyone ever tried making a smaller weak batch of beer from adding additional sparge water to a high gravity mash?
Example. you make a big 1.080 OG brew with 20LBS of grain, then recirculate an additional 5GAL of sparge water through the mash tun for a second lighter or weaker version of the high gravity brew?
Just curious.
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Check out Parti Gyle mashing.
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I've been thinking about doing this lately. I think you'd probably want to make a 10 gallon batch to try and get a larger amount of the first runnings for your strong wort, and still have enough for a respectable amount of the weaker wort.
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I thought it was all one word? (Partigyle)
Pronounced party-girl :lol:.
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Nice, thanks for that Richard.
I think I'm going to consider this type of brewing as an occasional technique when I want two strengths of the same brew. The weaker being available on tap for "non brewer" guests! hehe!
I'm assuming you could get mightly close to the 100% efficiency mark too.
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So far as I'm aware you actually do a second mash, not just split the first and second runnings up. Would be interested to know how it turns out if you try it.
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Me too because I had considered attempting partigyle mashing as well. I had considered making a "big beer" such as a very high gravity stout, and then taking the second mashing and sparge to make a weak stout or porter.
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There's a brewing tv show that does this you should watch it.
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Found this article on "parti-gyle" style brewing, it's history, etc.
http://brewingtechniques.com/library/ba ... osher.html (http://brewingtechniques.com/library/backissues/issue2.2/mosher.html)
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Richard.
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No problem :)