Hi first post after reading through this forum for awhile.
Been brewing for a lot of years kits/kilo and few extract receipes and partial 1kg stove top mashes including my favourite bitter ale extract brew which is always on tap at my place for the many mates that drop in.Which annoys SWMBO. Lol.
Got plenty of gear and all runs really well , so the next step is going all grain.
I just finished my mash tun, basically I had the Coleman "extreme" 75ltr cooler sitting in my shed, so saw excellent idea on YouTube for it, went to bunnings, got 2 mtrs of stainless braided hose. Pulled out the inner rubber hose and discarded . Then used the outer sheaf as the wrap around hose in the cooler then "t" it into the drain using fittings from bunnings then through the esky into a ball valve. The idea is to mash and sparge double batches in this cooler then drain into my boilers . This cooler kept a constant 67 to 68 degrees on my digital thermometer upto 90 mins with ease so 60 mins will be no issue.
I have brew mate at home. Just finished learning it.
What is the average amount of water you all grain guys use when mashing, ie 3 to 4 ltrs per kilo, then do you sparge with another 40 to 50% on top at finish to get final volume for boiling?
Eg, if the receipe calls for say 4 kg of grain with final volume 20 ltrs, do I mash with say 20 ltrs then sparge rinse with another 10 to 12 ltrs to get roughly say 27 to 28 ltrs after some losses in the grain etc. then boil this down to 23 ltrs with the hop additions to receipe specs?
If you get to 60 mins and it's only at 23 ltrs can you remove the hop sock and continue the boil till it gets down to 20 ltrs?
Any tips would be great, going to give this ago probably this weekend, I will probably try dr smurto golden ale first .
Tks guys can't wait to test new rig out.
Been brewing for a lot of years kits/kilo and few extract receipes and partial 1kg stove top mashes including my favourite bitter ale extract brew which is always on tap at my place for the many mates that drop in.Which annoys SWMBO. Lol.
Got plenty of gear and all runs really well , so the next step is going all grain.
I just finished my mash tun, basically I had the Coleman "extreme" 75ltr cooler sitting in my shed, so saw excellent idea on YouTube for it, went to bunnings, got 2 mtrs of stainless braided hose. Pulled out the inner rubber hose and discarded . Then used the outer sheaf as the wrap around hose in the cooler then "t" it into the drain using fittings from bunnings then through the esky into a ball valve. The idea is to mash and sparge double batches in this cooler then drain into my boilers . This cooler kept a constant 67 to 68 degrees on my digital thermometer upto 90 mins with ease so 60 mins will be no issue.
I have brew mate at home. Just finished learning it.
What is the average amount of water you all grain guys use when mashing, ie 3 to 4 ltrs per kilo, then do you sparge with another 40 to 50% on top at finish to get final volume for boiling?
Eg, if the receipe calls for say 4 kg of grain with final volume 20 ltrs, do I mash with say 20 ltrs then sparge rinse with another 10 to 12 ltrs to get roughly say 27 to 28 ltrs after some losses in the grain etc. then boil this down to 23 ltrs with the hop additions to receipe specs?
If you get to 60 mins and it's only at 23 ltrs can you remove the hop sock and continue the boil till it gets down to 20 ltrs?
Any tips would be great, going to give this ago probably this weekend, I will probably try dr smurto golden ale first .
Tks guys can't wait to test new rig out.