Hi!
We're getting ready for our first all grain brewing tomorrow, and are immensely excited about this.
Unfortunately, the 9 gallon pot we've ordered hasn't arrived in time, so we're stuck with the old 5 gallon one. As we wouldn't like to scale down the recipe too much, we've been thinking about getting more wort out than will actually fit in the pot, boiling the excess in a smaller pot on the stove, and using it to top up the main pot as it boils off.
Is this a good or a bad idea? It'll probably give us a more concentrated wort, but we're aiming at a pretty high OG anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem. But how will it affect the bitterness? The effect of the early and late hop additions? (We'll probably just do a bitterness addition at 60 and an aroma addition at 5-ish, perhaps with some more at flameout.) Should we add bitterness hops to the smaller pot as well? Should we perhaps do first wort hopping for bitterness, and just split the whole wort into the two pots after that? Which would be the best way to set up Beersmith for either scenario?
I expect there's already plenty of information about this all over the forum and the net, but we just received the news about our big pot not arriving in time, and will have to adjust our recipe in the last minute. Thanks in advance for any advice you might be able to give us!
Best,
/kalle.
We're getting ready for our first all grain brewing tomorrow, and are immensely excited about this.
Unfortunately, the 9 gallon pot we've ordered hasn't arrived in time, so we're stuck with the old 5 gallon one. As we wouldn't like to scale down the recipe too much, we've been thinking about getting more wort out than will actually fit in the pot, boiling the excess in a smaller pot on the stove, and using it to top up the main pot as it boils off.
Is this a good or a bad idea? It'll probably give us a more concentrated wort, but we're aiming at a pretty high OG anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem. But how will it affect the bitterness? The effect of the early and late hop additions? (We'll probably just do a bitterness addition at 60 and an aroma addition at 5-ish, perhaps with some more at flameout.) Should we add bitterness hops to the smaller pot as well? Should we perhaps do first wort hopping for bitterness, and just split the whole wort into the two pots after that? Which would be the best way to set up Beersmith for either scenario?
I expect there's already plenty of information about this all over the forum and the net, but we just received the news about our big pot not arriving in time, and will have to adjust our recipe in the last minute. Thanks in advance for any advice you might be able to give us!
Best,
/kalle.