Originally Posted by noeldundas

Here's my deal: I'm new to AG. But in the interest of planning ahead I bought a 60qt cooler so that I can handle 10 gallon batches.

The problem is that I only have an 8 gallon SS kettle and I'd like to try to make 10 gallons of beer at the same gravity, but with 2 separate boils. I do know how to partigyle, but that's not my goal now.

I'm wondering how, or if, I could batch sparge and collect my first boil volume (~6.5 gallons) into my kettle, and then maybe put the second boil volume into another carboy or pail to be boiled after the first one's in the primary. I do realize this will consume several hours... but I don't care.

I'd like no more than a 5% variance in OG between the beers. Is there anyway I could get roughly the same gravities from the first 6.5 gallons of runnings as I will from the last 6.5? Is there any other solution that will equalize the gravities of the separate volumes?

All ideas welcome (Recommending that I buy a bigger kettle does not count!)

Thanks!

Originally Posted by jason.mundy

Once you are finished sparging, dump your grains and clean your Mash Tun. Then use the mash tun to mix all your running back together.

Originally Posted by BigEd

The best answer is the one you have said you don't want to hear. Start saving for a bigger kettle. That is by far the best solution.

Originally Posted by Jonnio

I would just do two batches if your doing two different boils into two different fermenters. Otherwise trying to keep everything even is just too difficult. You won't really save that much time by doing a single mash, since you can do the second mash while your first wort is boiling.