easy mini mash ?

im headin out to buy water right now.

will be doing a mash of only 2lbs of base malts.

1.25 qt/lb is what i am seeing as the general concensus for mash water volume...

does this take into account how much the grain soaks up, or is that irrelevent? seems like 2/3 of a gallon into 2lbs of grain is goin to leave me with about 2 cups of mash

and sparge water volume, how much would you sparge with?

i now have the ability to boil all 5 gallons, although i will probably top off to 5 with near frozen bottled water as it really helps to cool down the wort for us non-IM guys.



thanks!

hope it isn't too late, but you can read up in my first pm session:
Here

There are some batch sparge questions answered...


Good luck

actually found it in time.


everything went sooooo smooth in this batch. that turkey fryer really made the difference...

only hiccup i had, was trying to heat the water in the oven for mashing and anothe rpot for sparge...lol!
3 hours later and my water is @ 100*.... 5 mins on stove top, all heated up.


anyway, i wanna mash tun cooler, then i can do everything out in the garage, will save a buncha time, and the fam HATES the smell of the hops and barley....some peoples kids.

Glad to hear all went well... The cooler MLT is nice to use... I have another AHS mini mash kit on the way... YAY!!!