Hi
I'm at the beginning of my all grain brewing journey and as such want to experiment with different ingredients, before i get stuck in my ways!!!!
I have brought a few 2 gallon pressure barrels. At £22 each their not that cheap, but cheaper than the 2 gal cornies, or should that cornii? I brewed up a 2 gal batch of hefewiser, a nervous time using my immersion chiller, have i double checked the seals? will the hose hold? anyhow all went well, although heating a gert big 4 gallon pot on the stove took ages!!! need a quality burner for outside me thinks.
My question is about trub. I collected 13 litres of wort for boiling and 10 liters for fermentation but there seamed to be a fair amount of trub and i'm not sure how much will settle and how much beer i will get to bottle? Is there a general rule of thumb for the amount of trub produced. The loss in a 60l brew or even a 5gal % wise is far less. but a 2 gal batch it seems to be far more, if i have to take into account a high percentage loss of maybe 20 or 30% it doesnt seem viable to brew 15 lt of beer for 10l?
help, graciously accepted
I'm at the beginning of my all grain brewing journey and as such want to experiment with different ingredients, before i get stuck in my ways!!!!
I have brought a few 2 gallon pressure barrels. At £22 each their not that cheap, but cheaper than the 2 gal cornies, or should that cornii? I brewed up a 2 gal batch of hefewiser, a nervous time using my immersion chiller, have i double checked the seals? will the hose hold? anyhow all went well, although heating a gert big 4 gallon pot on the stove took ages!!! need a quality burner for outside me thinks.
My question is about trub. I collected 13 litres of wort for boiling and 10 liters for fermentation but there seamed to be a fair amount of trub and i'm not sure how much will settle and how much beer i will get to bottle? Is there a general rule of thumb for the amount of trub produced. The loss in a 60l brew or even a 5gal % wise is far less. but a 2 gal batch it seems to be far more, if i have to take into account a high percentage loss of maybe 20 or 30% it doesnt seem viable to brew 15 lt of beer for 10l?
help, graciously accepted
if not the hops being strained will act as a filter for the trub though there are other methods :thumb: . Just as a comparison I have just brewed a Stout the target brew length was 25 lts, I collected 29 ltrs of wart & OG 1043 (though now I think i could have squeezed a litre or two more :wha: ) evaporation during the boil was about 11% per hour about 4 ltrs, losses in boiler(plastic) dead space (currently working out how to improve this any ideas appreciated) & absorbsion by hops not to mention shrinkage during cooling about 4%, about 2 ltrs, so in the FV 23 lts @ OG 1054, I anticipate losing a further litre when transfering to secondary + whatever will not fill the last bottle @ bottling.All in all about 7lts. hope this is of help
