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Grainfather

Started by fishjam45 (Colin), March 18, 2015, 03:04:12 PM

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Will_D

Hi Barry and welcome to the site.

Where are you based?

There are a few grainfathers in the Dublin North County!
Remember: The Nationals are just round the corner - time to get brewing

Simon_

There's even a Greatgrainfather in North County

Archsnapper

Based in Skerries, the heart of Fingal. Haven't quite got round to joining the club yet.

Barry

molc

January 13, 2016, 06:08:50 PM #213 Last Edit: January 14, 2016, 05:42:10 PM by molc
North county meet in malahide the last Tuesday of every month. Perfect location for a skerries native :)
Fermenting: IPA, Lambic, Mead
Conditioning: Lambic, Cider, RIS, Ole Ale, Saison
On Tap: IPA, Helles, Best Bitter

Will_D

Indeed! Next meeting is in Fowlers on Tuesday, the 26th at 7 pm.

You will be more than welcome with or without beer!
Remember: The Nationals are just round the corner - time to get brewing

DEMPSEY

What is the maximum malt bill for one of these chappies :-\
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Pheeel

Quote from: DEMPSEY on March 07, 2016, 01:01:14 PM
What is the maximum malt bill for one of these chappies :-\

9kg but the sparge apparently takes for ever. The makers think 8kg is more reasonable
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Leann ull

9kgs and you would need a big spoon of syrup of figs to "move it along"

DEMPSEY

Our club has a recipe for 20 liters that has 9.65Kg of malt ???. Would it handle that do you think. Also how are ye all finding the hop pellets additions.
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Pheeel

Might be pushing it. Could you scale it down to a 19L batch? Be a bugger to stir so you might want to try underletting by dropping the grain basket slowly into the water. Not tried it myself but apparently it avoids dough balls
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fishjam45 (Colin)

Split the batch and double mash
It's a longer brewday but worth it
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DEMPSEY

so do 2 10 liter batches then. How are ye finding the use of hop pellets. Are they clogging up the flow rate.
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Pheeel

Quote from: DEMPSEY on March 07, 2016, 05:26:07 PM
How are ye finding the use of hop pellets. Are they clogging up the flow rate.

No problem at all. I did six brews with the old hop filter and it was fine. Did a couple a month back with the new filter and it did seem to be more efficient at capturing the hops.
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DEMPSEY

The new filter being the Tee shaped one yes.
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oreils87

I did a 9.2KG batch last week and it was just at the brim! the recirculation arm was having trouble as it was right in the thick of it, hard to stir and sparging took the guts of an hour (needed an extra hand to lift it!) - I would recommend scaling it down if ya can!!!