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Spent grains sugarhead

Postby Rumblepants » Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:00 pm

Hi all,

I just put down two 23L washes using Bairds heavily peated grain and I have around 15kgs of spent grains sitting in a barrel.

I would like to make a sugar head to stretch the use of the grain. How much of the grain goes into a 27L wash?

Draft Recipe
27L water

Spent grains ??kg

4.5kg brown sugar
1kg Liquid Malt extract
Lowans yeast


Thanks
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Re: Spent grains sugarhead

Postby howard » Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:38 pm

at the moment, my method is to do similar to yourself.
mash 7kg of grain, sparge to about 22l.
add a few litres of backset and pitch us-05.
then with the remaining spent grains in the tun pipe, i dump them all into another fermenter which has about 4.5kg sugar dissolved in it.
i add about 5litres of backset, top up to 25 litres with filtered water and hit the sugarhead with yellow angel yeast.
the angel seems to rip any remaining goodness/taste out of the grains.
so with 15 kg of spent grains, i would split them in half and do 2 x 25l sugarheads.
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Re: Spent grains sugarhead

Postby Rumblepants » Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:35 am

Thanks Howard. I will do this. I think the Saunders Malt extract is only 80% fermentable so will add slightly less sugar in.
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