Have i made an error?

[Pezza24]

Made my first ever order from Get Er Brewed last week. Was impressed with the build your own all grain kit so decided to use that to order some grains and hops to make up two different half batches in the Greg Hughes Book. The Brown Porter and the Yorkshire Bitter.
Being my first time I just halved the amounts stated in the recipe and added them all to the same all grain kit on GEB. Now I'm worrying that all the grain will come in one bag and I'll have some strange mixture of grains. Anyone know how it comes?

 

[MickDundee]

If you’ve added them all together as one grain kit then, yes, they will all come in the same bag.

I’m sure it’ll be an interesting beer.

 

[Pezza24]

If you’ve added them all together as one grain kit then, yes, they will all come in the same bag.

I’m sure it’ll be an interesting beer.

Oh dear, the recipes are quite similar so I may be able to salvage some kind of porter out of it. I'll check the recipes and see later.

 

[Pezza24]

Just checked the recipes and this is what I've ordered...

Pale Maris Otter - 3.75kg
Dark Crystal Malt - 175g
Crystal Malt - 100g
Chocolate Malt - 171g
Brown Malt 150g
Terrified Whet -175g

It's not far off the full bill for the brown Porter I just don't know what effect the terrified wheat will have?

Might make this a full 23L brew to save wasting the grains just have to make sure the pots big enough. Or split it into 2 11L(ish) batches.

 

[Clint]

Have to laugh...terrified wheat...it'll just add to head retention. Not a bad thing to have in there at all..

 

[Pezza24]

It is nearly Halloween after all. Fair enough I'll just throw it all together and see what happens.

 

[Zephyr259]

Should make a tasty brown ale. It's worth trying those beers separately when you can as they're two of my favorites from the book, the bitter recipe grain bill is my standard for my bitters and pale ales just using flaked barley instead of wheat.

 

[Pezza24]

Glad to know it won't go to waste then. Just checked and I've got a 20L pan so dont really want to be making a full batch might have to split some of it up to make a smaller batch.

Was hoping for it to be quite dark as I wanted to.do the porter first. Also got EKG and some challenger to go into it.

 

[samale]

Terrified wheat
The thing's I find funny

 

[Pezza24]

Apart from the terrified wheat this is still bugging me lol.

Never tried BIAB before but could I do the following...

Mash full grain bill in 14L of water
Batch sparge in 2 maybe 3 L of water to aim for a boil volume of 14/15 Litres. I'm aware this will make my brew pretty strong so the plan would be to water it down afterwards whilst cooling.

I am trying to get my head around the brewfather app to give me some idea of volumes but I can't seem to input the variables I want into it.

 

[Linalmeemow]

I'm sure the beer's going to be fine, and it's another lesson learned!! What hops have you ordered with the grain?

 

[Pezza24]

East Kent Golding's and Challenger. Can't remember the amount of each.

 

[dave_77]

Apart from the terrified wheat this is still bugging me lol.

Never tried BIAB before but could I do the following...

Mash full grain bill in 14L of water
Batch sparge in 2 maybe 3 L of water to aim for a boil volume of 14/15 Litres. I'm aware this will make my brew pretty strong so the plan would be to water it down afterwards whilst cooling.

I am trying to get my head around the brewfather app to give me some idea of volumes but I can't seem to input the variables I want into it.

I used to make 13 l BIAB batches this way with a 20l pot. I used to have the batch sparge water heated in a picnic/cool box around 4/5 litres. Once I had completed the mash used to drain the bag and drop into the cool box stir and soak for 10 mins before adding to boil usually up to 18l in the pot. Like you said just add water to top up to the calculated fermenter volume to hit target gravity..
I used to set my BIAB/batch sparge brewhouse efficiency to 75%. Should be able to make a profile for BIAB and change efficiency to 75% see what your estimated total grains give you for your 2 intended batch sizes together(batch volume). Then if the estimated OG is too high/low you can adjust the final batch volume on the profile at the same efficiency ( but don't scale the recipe) until you hit the target estimated OG. Then top up the fermenter with water either to intended batch size volume to dilute, or use the brewfather dilution tool once you know the gravity before adding the water.sorry for the rambling..think that's how I would do it

 

[Matty1974]

Made my first ever order from Get Er Brewed last week. Was impressed with the build your own all grain kit so decided to use that to order some grains and hops to make up two different half batches in the Greg Hughes Book. The Brown Porter and the Yorkshire Bitter.
Being my first time I just halved the amounts stated in the recipe and added them all to the same all grain kit on GEB. Now I'm worrying that all the grain will come in one bag and I'll have some strange mixture of grains. Anyone know how it comes?

I did this too put all the grains in the one order, fortunately someon on Brewing facebook create me a recipe for Golden Ale with the grains i ordered as i was aiming for a IPA and Honey Ale.

 

[RichardM]

Made my first ever order from Get Er Brewed last week. Was impressed with the build your own all grain kit so decided to use that to order some grains and hops to make up two different half batches in the Greg Hughes Book. The Brown Porter and the Yorkshire Bitter.
Being my first time I just halved the amounts stated in the recipe and added them all to the same all grain kit on GEB. Now I'm worrying that all the grain will come in one bag and I'll have some strange mixture of grains. Anyone know how it comes?

It's a bit late now, but if you realised your mistake soon after ordering you could have phoned them and sorted it out.

 

[Pezza24]

I did this too put all the grains in the one order, fortunately someon on Brewing facebook create me a recipe for Golden Ale with the grains i ordered as i was aiming for a IPA and Honey Ale.

At least I'm not alone then lol, read the page again afterwards and panicked. From what everyone is saying im sure it will be fine.

@dave_77 thanks for the advice on brewfather, once my kit comes I'll try and get it sorted and see what this beer tastes like.

 

[Pezza24]

Brewed this yesterday.
Full grain bill that was sent mashed in 14L of water for an hour at 67C.
25g EKG @ 60m
15g EKG @ 10m

First ever BIAB. Was a lot more work than I anticipated. That bag full of grains is hot and heavy.

As I wanted to dilute down the mash due to it being more grain than I needed I didn't go for the wort chiller. It looked too dirty and I didn't want it putting a rain on the beer. The 5 L of cold water I diluted with and a few sinkfulls of water chilled it enough to pitch the yeast.

It's now sat in the corner of the kitchen bubbling like mad so something has gone right.

OG 1.046/1.047

 

[mothman]

That sounds just the ticket. Nothing more perfect than something bubbling away in the corner of the kitchen!

Wonder how many people on this forum know people with chickens to pass on the spent grain to?

 

[terrym]

Wonder how many people on this forum know people with chickens to pass on the spent grain to?

Quite a number including me
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/using-spent-grain.87301

 

[Pezza24]

Luckily I've got an allotment so the spent grain is going straight on the compost heap.