Saving time/overnight mashing.

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Well I hit targets exactly, no extra efficiency gained but I did brew this as a "concentrated" no chill so didn't have the same ratio of sparge water to strike water as I normally would.

Combined with no chill it made for an extremely efficient brew day and will definitely be running it again...regularly.
 
Setting this up again tonight reminded me of this thread. I think my beers came out a little drier but I'm pleased with everything I've brewed using this method so far. This with no chill has cut brew days right down for me. Considering it took me 3 hours to prep the brewery and mill grain, any time saving is welcome
 
Yeah , I've been time poor last 7 month, work, family......
This has saved my marriage lol and works good enough for most of my staples.
Setup, mash in fri night, boil, hops cube first up sat morning. Done....
 
FWIW, I don't particularly try to shave time off of my brew day but I do it where I can without modifying my processes.

One thing that I have done is fill up my electric HLT with water and place it on a timer so it comes on a few hours before I wake up in the morning, strike water being ready to go, I mash in and I'm away. Gas will heat a lot faster, but electric completely shaves the time away all together.

Mash in, I get my sparge water heating, hops ready, fementer sanitised, pump cleaned, chiller prepped before boil time.
 
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