brew No 2 advice

[neal]

just received the Belgian Blonde ag kit from the Malt Miller, ingredients look great, looking forward to brew day !
As it's only my second BIAB I'm after some guidance with mash temp and volume as it has no details included. Going on the product information I know I need to boil for 90min and I'll probably mash for 90min too but how much should I start with for a 23ltr brew, about 26.5ltr and top up pre-boil with sparge ? a 90 minute boil will reduce it more than my first brew which was a 60 minute boil so I'll need to top it up to 23ltr before it hits the fv, what with, just pre boiled water, I don't mind a short brew if it keeps the og healthy :wink: ? and what temp should I mash at 68deg ? I'm not sure!

 

[cheapbrew]

Mash @ 66
http://byo.com/bock/item/2827-belgian-blond-style-profile

Not sure of your setup so cannot comment on boil off , but you should have some idea from your first one if it was the same size and equipment, but if you get the mash right and extract all the sugars the predicted OG should be ok with the final water amount at 23L

 

[neal]

Mash @ 66
http://byo.com/bock/item/2827-belgian-blond-style-profile

Not sure of your setup so cannot comment on boil off , but you should have some idea from your first one if it was the same size and equipment, but if you get the mash right and extract all the sugars the predicted OG should be ok with the final water amount at 23L

cheers cheapbrew, the link made it a little clearer thanks :thumb:

 

[neal]

got this going yesterday,the mrs banished me to the garden after last weeks effort ! didn't get started until lunch time so I finished off with a head torch on :lol:
90min mash at 66deg, it held the temperature well seeing as it wasn't too warm out, only dropping a little in the last half an hour, dunk sparge in 5ltrs and a 90min boil adding 83g of Hallertauer Mittelfrueh at the start ( they really do smell good!) as stated and 680g of Candi sugar syrup at 10min, had a preboil of 28ltrs @1.052 and finished with 21ltrs in the fv @1.066 so I'm happy with that, no doubt I shall get more confident in my procedures as I brew more and will get a little more efficient too
it's currently sat in the fridge at 20deg and the rehydrated t-58 is happy as Larry as it's giving the blow off tube a decent run
managed to get my Belfast Blonde into a secondary too yesterday for a little conditioning and i chugged a few AIPA's through the day to help me along
cheers :thumb: