What type of ale pale were you using for the hot wort? Is it the really kind that we all got with our first kits, or is it made of something special to handle the heat? If it is special, where did you buy yours.
And excellent job on simplifying your process! I myself do all my mashes in an unmodified 5-gal cooler with a $1.5 'paint strainer' bag. No screens, no 'vourlaufing' and no stuck sparge, ever. Even with 60 oz of canned pumpkin. Simple for the win!
But if you don't risk a stuck sparge you aren't brewing! Silly ghpeel...
I have done a no chill in my ale pail. HDPE #2 plastic. It never blinked at 200+ degree wort. I threw a star sa soaked rag on top of the hole and let it go. 2 days later I had time to rack the other batch and pitched it on a cake.
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That's it .... I'm doing this. So basically you have your pre boil volume plus what the grain's going to absorb in your mash tun?
So my preboil volume is 7 gallons and we'll say 11 lbs of grain. The grain should absorb 1.375 gallons so I just mash with 8.375 gallons (roughly) ? Is that right?
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Would it be possible to do no-chill with a 5 gal glass carboy? I would use a foam stopper, NOT an airlock or anything else that might get clogged up, which would create a potentially dangerous vacuum in the glass.
Would it be possible to do no-chill with a 5 gal glass carboy? I would use a foam stopper, NOT an airlock or anything else that might get clogged up, which would create a potentially dangerous vacuum in the glass.
NOOOOOOOO
Is your carboy Pyrex? Want to see a glass carboy explode from temp. shock? DO NOT DO IT
That's it .... I'm doing this. So basically you have your pre boil volume plus what the grain's going to absorb in your mash tun?
So my preboil volume is 7 gallons and we'll say 11 lbs of grain. The grain should absorb 1.375 gallons so I just mash with 8.375 gallons (roughly) ? Is that right?
Yep it's that simple, and my volume worked out spot on (I was a quart short pre-boil because I spilled a quart of water trying to prime the pump ). I made a chart in the back of my brewlog notebook so I don't have to figure it out each time.
The ale pail is a #2 HDPE food grade ale pail, same one you get from LHBS. HDPE can handle the heat. Anything else cannot including glass... Better Bottles melt at just over 140*F... for more info on no chill see this thread, no sense re-hashing it all here.
). I made a chart in the back of my brewlog notebook so I don't have to figure it out each time.
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