yashicamat
Well-Known Member
I am contemplating having a go at my first AG brew. It will be definately very rough around the edges, but I'd like to try it anyway!
I only have a 19 quart boil pan at the moment though (I do also have an 11 quart one too). I can get my oven to maintain a temperature of about 152F so my thoughts are to mash at this temperature in the smaller pan, with about 1.1 quarts per pound of grain. Then sparge with 1.5 quarts per pound, which would make with a typical 10lb grain haul a total volume of liquid of 26 quarts.
Is there anything stopping me from boiling about 16 quarts of this and using it for the hops etc. and just pouring the left over wort which I couldn't boil into the fermenter afterwards (assuming the volume is correct)? Or is it critical that the wort is actually boiled?
I guess the alternative is to boil the two pots together, but I only have one powerful gas ring, the other isn't as good and I think I might be struggling for space on the hob anyway with the main pot there.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
I only have a 19 quart boil pan at the moment though (I do also have an 11 quart one too). I can get my oven to maintain a temperature of about 152F so my thoughts are to mash at this temperature in the smaller pan, with about 1.1 quarts per pound of grain. Then sparge with 1.5 quarts per pound, which would make with a typical 10lb grain haul a total volume of liquid of 26 quarts.
Is there anything stopping me from boiling about 16 quarts of this and using it for the hops etc. and just pouring the left over wort which I couldn't boil into the fermenter afterwards (assuming the volume is correct)? Or is it critical that the wort is actually boiled?
I guess the alternative is to boil the two pots together, but I only have one powerful gas ring, the other isn't as good and I think I might be struggling for space on the hob anyway with the main pot there.
Any thoughts are appreciated.