

Being able to accurately hit temperatures and move through the steps with ease has been the best part. One of the most appealing things to me about these systems is the ability to do more controlled step mashes for lagers. I am in a Facebook group for Foundry users and there are a LOT of new brewers using these systems that have no idea what the hell they are doing, but I would like to think I am not in that category. I have now brewed 6 batches on my new Anvil Foundry electric all-in one system after 10 years of brewing in a traditional picnic cooler mash tun three vessel system. Info on the net about multi-gyle is harder to come by, and your mention of it might be the first time I've heard of it. I’m not saying the MoreBeer description (or any others that say similar) are correct, but I would enjoy being set straight. I hadn't previously heard about the 'remashing' part and thought it was more along the lines of additional lautering (same thing?) after the first run of a big grain bill.or at least continued latuering (for smaller brews) after reaching the desired gravity/volume for the first run. "This technique involved drawing off the first part of the mash and using it to make strong ale or barleywine, then remashing the grain and drawing off the second runnings for a more ordinary, weak, and watery concoction called small beer, the light beer of its day." Some sources indicate parti-gyle brewing is brewing a strong beer from the first running and progressively smaller beers from subsequent runnings from the same (re)mash, as in Parti-gyle Brewing (courtesy MoreBeer): Butt is still used as a term for a large barrel, primarily for sherry and port.Ĭlick to expand.If I understand your point and it's correct, I fall into the ‘innacurate’ camp. Parti-gyle (which homebrewers inaccurately use when they mean multi-gyle) is actually the blending of separate batch sparges (gyles) to acheive different beers of varying strength, but with a bit of each gyle in them.īatch sparging as we use the term would be entire gyle, which is why early porters were called "Entire Butt" the entirety of the gyles would be mixing into one fermentation vessel, being a butt.


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The extracted tannins would actually make the beer seem a bit more full but lend a dry character, much like in red wine. Click to expand.In theory, going no sparge leads to a better malt character with less chance of extracting tannins from the grain please correct me if I am off on this:īest example would be the old school British multi-gyle, which is pretty much batch sparging but going into separate kettles: First runnings for a big beer to be sipped on, second (or third) for a lower gravity beer to quench thirst.
