Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:50 am
i've done two or three partigyle brews, I've been less concerned with my numbers than I should have been, but I've always been close.
I was doing some reading online and saw some information suggesting that two-thirds of your sugars come out in the first runnings and the last third comes out in your sparge. Using that info plus your projected efficiency, you should be able to get fairly close.
I wrongly estimated my efficiency on my last partigyle batch but the two-thirds/one-third thing seemed to hold fairly true: my last partigyle yielded 5.5 gallons to each fermentor - one at 1.072 and the other at 1.038 (I oversparged a bit and had to boil the shit out of it to get it down to the right volume).
I'm not a scientific brewer, though, that's for sure. I don't have the time or leftover energy to put that damn much effort into worrying about it. I have my processes down, I have a fairly good fermentation control situation, and I have a pretty decent understanding of ingredients...I'm not too worried about repeatability and hitting my numbers at this point. It would be much better for a really good brewer experienced with partigyle brewing to give a proper overview and examination of details.
Bottle: Lonely Beer Party Bitter, Mildly Amused, Saison Du Biz (two fermentors with slightly different ferm. temps), Noah's Parti Bitter
Fermentor: Noahs Parti Wine-o
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