mvhsbball22
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Yo,
So I've been wanting to move to AG with a few batches now under my belt. At this time, my equipment is two 5 gallon pots and a 3 gallon pot. I read DB's Stovetop thread a few times and also looked at his multiple pot boil that he did for his RIS.
My questions, I guess, are whether it is advisable to try to boil about 3.5 or so gallons in each 5-gal pot and split the dunk sparge water between them, or if I should just stick to a 2.5g or 3g grain bill. Because it's gonna be 4+ hours, I would probably prefer to do 5g if possible, but I'm not sure splitting the sparge, grains, and hop between the two pots would work. In theory, it seems like it should, but I've heard that hop utilization would be different between the pots.
That being said, is the only downside to that proposition that it would be slightly less consistent? If so, I wouldn't be all hot and bothered, as the odds of me rebrewing the exact beer this early in my brewing career is pretty slim.
Thanks in advance for any advice you gurus have.
So I've been wanting to move to AG with a few batches now under my belt. At this time, my equipment is two 5 gallon pots and a 3 gallon pot. I read DB's Stovetop thread a few times and also looked at his multiple pot boil that he did for his RIS.
My questions, I guess, are whether it is advisable to try to boil about 3.5 or so gallons in each 5-gal pot and split the dunk sparge water between them, or if I should just stick to a 2.5g or 3g grain bill. Because it's gonna be 4+ hours, I would probably prefer to do 5g if possible, but I'm not sure splitting the sparge, grains, and hop between the two pots would work. In theory, it seems like it should, but I've heard that hop utilization would be different between the pots.
That being said, is the only downside to that proposition that it would be slightly less consistent? If so, I wouldn't be all hot and bothered, as the odds of me rebrewing the exact beer this early in my brewing career is pretty slim.
Thanks in advance for any advice you gurus have.