Hi guys,
I'm very keen to try my first all grain batch. I've gotten a few bits and pieces but not enough to do things "by the book" so I was hoping to improvise. I've got 4kg of Pilsner malt, PoR hops, 200g carapils and 200 chocolate/cystral. I have a large viola bag, a 25L esky and a 25L boiler that was from a turbo 500 still I'm borrowing off my mate.
My worry is the size of the boiler, for a 21L batch I'm pretty sure I need atleast 30+L for a boiler for a bull size boil.... I don't have a tap on the esky because it's my partners so I was thinking - Could I get away with BIAB style in the esky, with about 12L of strike temped water for the mash, remove the bag of mashed grain and place into boiler, do the the sparge with 8L in the boiler, just boil and hop the sparge for an hour and add that with the original mash water to my fermenter?
Sorry guys for the very hard to read post..... I have so much sh!t rattling in my head regarding this all grain business and it's starting to scare me haha.
If it helps I have a mashmaster fridgemate mkII that I can use to control the boiler.
Cheers in advance,
Mitch.
I'm very keen to try my first all grain batch. I've gotten a few bits and pieces but not enough to do things "by the book" so I was hoping to improvise. I've got 4kg of Pilsner malt, PoR hops, 200g carapils and 200 chocolate/cystral. I have a large viola bag, a 25L esky and a 25L boiler that was from a turbo 500 still I'm borrowing off my mate.
My worry is the size of the boiler, for a 21L batch I'm pretty sure I need atleast 30+L for a boiler for a bull size boil.... I don't have a tap on the esky because it's my partners so I was thinking - Could I get away with BIAB style in the esky, with about 12L of strike temped water for the mash, remove the bag of mashed grain and place into boiler, do the the sparge with 8L in the boiler, just boil and hop the sparge for an hour and add that with the original mash water to my fermenter?
Sorry guys for the very hard to read post..... I have so much sh!t rattling in my head regarding this all grain business and it's starting to scare me haha.
If it helps I have a mashmaster fridgemate mkII that I can use to control the boiler.
Cheers in advance,
Mitch.