Does anyone have a calculator for converting all grain recipes to partial mash? I am doing the partial mash system written about by Chris Colby in the October 2006 issue of BYO. I have a two gallon cooler I converted into a mini-mash ton. I think the most it can handle is 4lbs or so of grain.
Thanks,
Bill
Hard to beat Beersmith, but I used the HBD recipator for a long time when I did partial mash. Here is the link Recipator and Brews And Views – The Home Brew Digest
What I used to do is calculate my grain bill based onthe max size mash I could handle, and then figure out how much DME or LME to add to get to my OG. Although I do all-grain now, I made some of my best beers as partial mash.
I have used the same 2 gallon cooler method with 4 pounds of grain for years. Works great.
I’ve never seen a need for going all grain.
Here is the best description I’ve read on recipe conversion. It came from 1998 AHA comvention.
Converting All-Grain Recipes to Extract / Partial Mash
©1998 by Ken Schwartz
link to pdf file:
http://members.cox.net/steve.krieske/Extract%20Brewing%20Guide.pdf
Happy partial mashing,
Jim Prucha
+eleventy billion to Ken’s stuff. That’s where I learned to do partial mash and build a tun from a cooler. His other work on batch sparging is what got me headed down that road.