So I made a session ale as a giant starter for my double jack clone, have everything ready, then realized I have never brewed a bill this high and it's not going to fit in my 5 gallon bucket, not even at 1.25 mash thickness.
I have a few options, I can switch to brew in a bag and do about 5lbs of the grain bill in that (I like to use 1.5-2qt/lb as I feel the efficiency is better in my experience) and do the rest in the cooler, or I can do a very thick mash, and a two-step sparge, but I feel I will get some serious dough clumps from this, plus it will take all damn day to sparge that much.
What do you guys think I should do? Not really interested in lowering my brew volume, it's already at 4 gallons, probably 3.5 total after all of the trub.
I have a few options, I can switch to brew in a bag and do about 5lbs of the grain bill in that (I like to use 1.5-2qt/lb as I feel the efficiency is better in my experience) and do the rest in the cooler, or I can do a very thick mash, and a two-step sparge, but I feel I will get some serious dough clumps from this, plus it will take all damn day to sparge that much.
What do you guys think I should do? Not really interested in lowering my brew volume, it's already at 4 gallons, probably 3.5 total after all of the trub.