pyrosx
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Basic question: can anyone see any huge problems with mashing-in-bag-in-an-esky?
Couple of reasons for me thinking about this bastardisation of what would otherwise be a nice clean 1 vessel BIAB technique.
- The stock pots I already own aren't 19L - they're only 15-16L.... which i'm glad I realised before trying to mash 4.5kg grain with 12L of water as per NickJD's wonderful tutorial.... could've got messy.
- Ultimately I want to buy a 70L pot to do BIAB properly (I have a 2L/h gas reg & wok burner already), but am looking for a bargain or i'll have to wait till after the Fat Red Jolly Man Cometh, and don't want to waste funds on an intermediate option (19L)
- I have an esky - but I want it to -stay- an esky as well - so no drilling. But I like the idea of the insulation etc. and it has a tap on the bottom, so draining back into the pot shouldn't be an issue.
- I have a BIAB bag already - otherwise i'd look at some kind of copper-tube-manifold sort of thing. (And also, I sucks at the tools)
I figured the pot would heat the strike water, water goes in esky, bag goes in esky, grain goes in bag. Then the bag would hoist out the grain out of the esky, the tap can drain the sweet wort back into the 16L pot, and the boil can go on as planned now that the 4kg of grain has given me some headspace in the smaller pot.
I realise that this is adding a few liquid-movement steps to the process, but i'm willing to live with the hassle until the time comes to get a proper size pot.
Thoughts?
Couple of reasons for me thinking about this bastardisation of what would otherwise be a nice clean 1 vessel BIAB technique.
- The stock pots I already own aren't 19L - they're only 15-16L.... which i'm glad I realised before trying to mash 4.5kg grain with 12L of water as per NickJD's wonderful tutorial.... could've got messy.
- Ultimately I want to buy a 70L pot to do BIAB properly (I have a 2L/h gas reg & wok burner already), but am looking for a bargain or i'll have to wait till after the Fat Red Jolly Man Cometh, and don't want to waste funds on an intermediate option (19L)
- I have an esky - but I want it to -stay- an esky as well - so no drilling. But I like the idea of the insulation etc. and it has a tap on the bottom, so draining back into the pot shouldn't be an issue.
- I have a BIAB bag already - otherwise i'd look at some kind of copper-tube-manifold sort of thing. (And also, I sucks at the tools)
I figured the pot would heat the strike water, water goes in esky, bag goes in esky, grain goes in bag. Then the bag would hoist out the grain out of the esky, the tap can drain the sweet wort back into the 16L pot, and the boil can go on as planned now that the 4kg of grain has given me some headspace in the smaller pot.
I realise that this is adding a few liquid-movement steps to the process, but i'm willing to live with the hassle until the time comes to get a proper size pot.
Thoughts?