First 10 gallon AG brew

**Bobby_M** · 09-08-2007, 10:46 PM

American Amber....
1.053 OG at 10.5 gallons.

Crankandstein with DIY hopper:

19.75 lbs of grain in a 48qt cooler

Added 2.5 gallons to mash out...woah boy..stir slowly.

Boiling mashout water got the temp up to 169F:

**Bobby_M** · 09-08-2007, 10:51 PM

First runnings collected:

12 gallons in the keg:

Proofed a little slurry I had in the fridge for a week by adding a little sugar water.. Yes, they're still viable:

In the fermenter, in the freezer at 66F. It took off within 14 hours. No worries.

ohiobrewtus · 09-08-2007, 10:58 PM

How's that big ol' white tub working out for you as a fermenter? I saw the post about those over on the green board a while back and I'm still thinking about getting one.

Great pics, btw.

Hell Brew · 09-08-2007, 11:00 PM

Awesome job, looks like it was a lot of fun.

**Bobby_M** · 09-08-2007, 11:18 PM

This is my first time fermenting in that thing.. I was going to use it for grain storage but it's just too temping to ferment all 10 in one vessel. So far so good.

**Lil' Sparky** · 09-13-2007, 12:14 PM

Great pics Bobby. You really took your MLT to the limit. Did you know it was going to be that close? I too need to figure out something else other than 2 carboys for fermenting 10 gal batches.

**Orfy** · 09-13-2007, 04:48 PM

I likey.

I need to go 10g.

I'm gonna look at it sooon.

WOP31 · 09-13-2007, 04:54 PM

Nice pics, I like your hopper on the grain mill, and the use of clamps for hands free crushing. Also what is that that your thermometer is floating on in your mash tun?

Chhers

**Bobby_M** · 09-13-2007, 05:02 PM

Thanks... that was the cheapest hopper I could figure and all it took was the correct hole saw size in a piece of 2 x 4 mounted to the top of the crankandstein.

The thermo is floating in the plastic lid of an old coffee carafe. It just happened to have the right size hole to make a seal. Talk about cobbling. I was looking for a small thin piece of styrofoam for the same purpose but found this thing in the garage. Of course, I had to open the lid to check temps but I only had this one in there to verify the accuracy of my remote probe electronic one that I was reading from outside the tun.

Yes, I knew that big mashout was going to push the limits. If the bill were any larger I would have just done a first runnings and used hotter sparge.

Rhoobarb · 09-13-2007, 06:59 PM

Nice job! I'm looking to go 10 gal real soon, too.

Maybe I missed it posted elsewhere, but what the heck is that white thing you're fermenting in? I'm intrigued!