Big fella,
Someone already posted the link to my
PartialMash pictorial page. It went very smoothly, I didn't bother with first steeping grains. The beer is tasting good.
Today I tried something a bit more ambitious, getting the boil up to 15 litres (in a 19 litre pot). It went ok but the wort barely trickled out the screen I made for my mash tun so I ended up using tossing all the grain in the colander that I used on the above page. I will definitely be giving it another go. The second attempt can be found at
PartialMash/2
I haven't been getting great efficiency but the neat thing with partial mashes is that it doesn't matter, you just make up the missing OG with malt extract.
As for the wort chiller, it wasn't hard to make and I can cool in about 15 minutes. I have tried cooling stuff before in the sink and it seems to take forever.