I love making beer!
I think making beer is the craziest thing on the planet. It feels like every day I find some new approach. It feels like a process that can be almost as easy or difficult as you'd like it to be. I've pointed out in the past that there are certainly a group of purists who believe in doing things exactly one way. But I've also pointed out that if you wanted to find someone to agree with just about any practice, you probably could.
Today's epiphany was no-boil brewing. I think I've just forced myself to derail my original plans for my next beer to try this instead. Maybe scale an AG recipe down to 2-3G. I still have to deal with the infuriating process of emptying the grain bag. Though, maybe with a full volume of water being used if will be less of a pain (thinner wort to flow through bag).
Based on my earlier readings you'd think this would be destined to ruin your batch or have it turn out like total crap. And, to make matters more amusing, the experiment ALSO used the no-chill method. Aside from slightly lower perceived IBUs the author felt the beers were actually quite similar to those done via the "proper" method. And even noted that they were quite clear. Basically, the approach laughs in the face of everything the "proper" method teaches and suffered none of the consequences warned of. I have no doubt that this approach is more prone to infection. But then, that is one of the reasons beer uses hops.
Frankly, after my 3-4 hours last night with my first BIAB, a 75 minute brew process sounds phenomenal. Especially when it still enables you do AG (albeit BIAB style).
In the comments another novel approach was mentioned for addressing the hops utilization. Basically dumping off a gallon or so to boil with some hops and then adding it back to the larger batch. Seems like a good way to ensure a certain minimum amount of IBUs and to help with concerns of over-hopping.
I think this is how I'll use my second fermenter in a couple of weeks. In the meantime I need to craft a good 2.5G recipe :). If it does indeed turn out, then I'll be considering a full sized batch to replace it in the second fermenter (still want to stagger my experiments, so if next batch is a wild experiment, the one after should be something more sane).
Today's epiphany was no-boil brewing. I think I've just forced myself to derail my original plans for my next beer to try this instead. Maybe scale an AG recipe down to 2-3G. I still have to deal with the infuriating process of emptying the grain bag. Though, maybe with a full volume of water being used if will be less of a pain (thinner wort to flow through bag).
Based on my earlier readings you'd think this would be destined to ruin your batch or have it turn out like total crap. And, to make matters more amusing, the experiment ALSO used the no-chill method. Aside from slightly lower perceived IBUs the author felt the beers were actually quite similar to those done via the "proper" method. And even noted that they were quite clear. Basically, the approach laughs in the face of everything the "proper" method teaches and suffered none of the consequences warned of. I have no doubt that this approach is more prone to infection. But then, that is one of the reasons beer uses hops.
Frankly, after my 3-4 hours last night with my first BIAB, a 75 minute brew process sounds phenomenal. Especially when it still enables you do AG (albeit BIAB style).
In the comments another novel approach was mentioned for addressing the hops utilization. Basically dumping off a gallon or so to boil with some hops and then adding it back to the larger batch. Seems like a good way to ensure a certain minimum amount of IBUs and to help with concerns of over-hopping.
I think this is how I'll use my second fermenter in a couple of weeks. In the meantime I need to craft a good 2.5G recipe :). If it does indeed turn out, then I'll be considering a full sized batch to replace it in the second fermenter (still want to stagger my experiments, so if next batch is a wild experiment, the one after should be something more sane).
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