Multiple runnings
Found something interesting today that got me thinking about recipie ideas for next year. Similar to what we did with J’s all grain mixed with the honey inspiration from the J’ale. This sound like an interesting experiment:
http://www.nwlink.com/~badger/braggot.html
Think we’d have to do a 5gallon mash though. 20 gallons of final beer/mead would require some more fermenters if we did a 10gallon sized mash!
Off the grains to do a 10gallon batch of something like J’s brown we could create 4 separate 5 gallon batches each quite different from each other.
- First 5 gallons - straight brown ale. Exactly what you were aiming for.
- Second 5 gallons - specialty ale. Same brown - but different hops, spices, fruit, yeast.
- Third 5 gallons - Mild ale. Runnings should get thinner around here making for a lighter bodied ale.
- Fourth 5 gallons - Braggot - Runnings are getting thin so honey is added to make up the fermentables.
I need to do some more research on this and come up with a game plan for a brew weekend…