So...Partigyle

As mentioned before, I would like to try my hand at a partigyle brew. To adequately explain partigyle, a few brewing basics must be mentioned. Say you want to end up with 2 gallons of beer in a normal batch. When you add water to mash your grain, you don't just mix in 2 gallons of water with the grain and call that good (well, technically you could but you would have to use a lot more grain). What you do is mash with, let's just make it simple, 1 gallon of water then drain off what we call the "first runnings". Once that is done you add the second gallon of water, stir, and then drain off the "second runnings". The first runnings will contain the bulk of the needed sugar for fermentation, the second is "rinsing" all the rest out. These two runnings then combine to make your wort.

Now then, what a partigyle brew is is making two separate beers from the same mash. When you pull off the first runnings, that gets put right into the brew pot and boiling right away. The second runnings is put into a separate pot for a second boil. Since the first contains a bulk of the sugar, it will be a more alcoholic beer, called the "big beer", the second with less alcohol, the "small beer". When you are done, you will have two beers that have the same basic flavor profile, but that are completely different.

Partigyle #1

Big Beer: Upelkuchen

Small Beer: Pishsalver

Partigyle #2

Big Beer: Reboil

Small Beer: Reflux