killian
Well-Known Member
I just had a pretty long brew day yesterday & it got me thinking, some one has to have had a longer day that I had.
The recipe was based on one out of byo mag. sweet potatoe esb. I made it 10 gallons.
Ist I peeled and mashed 10 lbs of sweet potatoes and toasted some pale malt for 45 minutes. then I realized that the mash wouldnt fit in my 10 gallon cooler, I then had to convert one of my kegs into a mash tun ( based this on somewhat on flyguy's cooler conversion). mashed for 1hr and started the 1st runnings of the batch sparge. the run off had to have taken all of 2.5 hours. I think the mashed potatoes gummed up the braid. I forgot to start the sparge water until the run over was about 3/4 the way through.
So after all is said and done the day lasted just under 12 hours!
The recipe was based on one out of byo mag. sweet potatoe esb. I made it 10 gallons.
Ist I peeled and mashed 10 lbs of sweet potatoes and toasted some pale malt for 45 minutes. then I realized that the mash wouldnt fit in my 10 gallon cooler, I then had to convert one of my kegs into a mash tun ( based this on somewhat on flyguy's cooler conversion). mashed for 1hr and started the 1st runnings of the batch sparge. the run off had to have taken all of 2.5 hours. I think the mashed potatoes gummed up the braid. I forgot to start the sparge water until the run over was about 3/4 the way through.
So after all is said and done the day lasted just under 12 hours!