BIAB Porter

[badgerdan]

Would a BIAB Porter work? I read that beers with flaked wheat aren't best with this method.
Plus do i have to mash with full liquid, can i just use half then take the bag out and sparge from there to the desired level?

[jimp2003]

You could certainly brew a porter using the BIAB method. I don't see how flaked wheat would be a problem and certainly not in the amounts for a porter... ...maybe someone thought you might get a stuck mash..?

If that was the theory then I think its a load of baloney as the high water to grain ratio in a typical BIAB mash means it is really difficult to get a stuck mash plus you are just pulling the bag at the end and can help it drain by moving the grain around if you need to.

I have seen 100% wheat beers brewed using BIAB with no added husks...

You don't have to use the full volume in the mash with BIAB. You can take whatever approach best suits you or the brew you might be doing at the time. For example when I do a BIAB I usually keep back about 5l to do a simple sparge.

Go for it and good luck with the Brew!

Jim

[badgerdan]

Thanks for the reply, now i think about it i don't think my recipe has that much flaked wheat so yeah, shouldn't be a problem

[Beer O'Clock]

I've done one. It's fine.

[ArmChair]

I can see no problem, what's your recipe out of interest?

[badgerdan]

Ok, i think i was thinking of a different recipe when i wrote the above :/ but this is at least what i'm brewing next

Poltergeist Porter Brown Porter

Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l Brewer: Nick French
Boil Size: 27.66 l Boil Time: 90 min End of Boil Volume 23.92 l
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 % Final Bottling Volume: 23.00 l Est Mash Efficiency 70.0 %

Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.000 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (9.8 EBC) Grain 1 85.8 %
0.300 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (157.6 EBC) Grain 2 6.4 %
0.260 kg Chocolate Malt (886.5 EBC) Grain 3 5.6 %
0.100 kg Roasted Barley (591.0 EBC) Grain 4 2.1 %
35.00 g Fuggles [4.40 %] - Boil 90.0 min Hop 5 18.6 IBUs
20.00 g Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Boil 90.0 min Hop 6 12.1 IBUs
15.00 g Fuggles [4.40 %] - Boil 15.0 min

[john_drummer]

I regularly do a BIAB porter for a mate.
in fact I have one conditioning right now, and one in the glass in front of me. It's lovely

21L batch OG 1044 FG 1011 bitterness 47.4 IBU, colour 43.5 EBC
28.5L strike water @ 70.4 degC, 68% efficiency

Pale malt: 3466g
Brown Malt 508g
Pale Crystal 269g
Chocolate Malt 197g
Torrefied Wheat 100g

90 minute single infusion mash @ 67degC

Fuggles 59g @ 90mins
Fuggles 20g @ 15mins
Irish Moss 5g @ 15mins

Nottingham yeast

[john_drummer]

and our bass player has just ordered another batch... that's no 4 for him I think, not forgetting the Celebration Ale batch I shared with him and the two or three batches of CaraGold his missus has commissioned.

"tell you what I'll do I'll make the first one free
and when you want some more just come back to me"
<in joke>