jakecpunut
Well-Known Member
Just thinking out loud here so bear with me...
Here is my current setup..
15.5g keggle with sight glass and ball valve for boiling the wort
5g kettle for heating up strike and sparge water
52 qt coleman extreme mash tun
1 SQ14 burner
My Process:
Heat up strike water in 5 gallon kettle (no ball valve), usually 3.5 to 4.5 gallons
Lift and dump into mash tun
Mash
Drain into bucket to get exact qty from first runnings since keggle site glass only starts at 3 gallons
Drain from bucket into keggle.
A few minutes before I start my vorlauf for my 1st runnings I'll start heating up my sparge water in the 5 gallon kettle and by the time the 1st runnings are done, the sparge water is ready to go into the mash tun.
Remove sparge water from burner and dump into tun, roll the burner inside and set keggle with first runnings in it on the burner, sparge for 10, vorlauf and drain 2nd runnings into keggle, roll the 7 gallons outside and start the boil.
I WANT TO MOVE TO 10 GALLON BATCHES!
Sooo, since I will be pretty much doubling everything, I want to figure out the easiest way to use what I have without buying a lot of unnecessary stuff.
Lets say I do a 28 lb grain bill which is probably as large as I would do.
I would be heating up 8.75 gallons of water for the 1st runnings and 6.25 on the sparge to get 12 gallons.
I DO have another 15.5g keg that I haven't converted yet. So I'm thinking the simplest thing to do would be...
Convert 2nd keg to HLT with site glass and ball valve.
Use that to heat up 8.75 gallons of water
Don't see any point in buying a 10 gallon pot when I have the extra keg.
Here's where I'm guessing I'll need a pump that will pump the strike water from the HLT just outside my basement door, to the mash tun just inside my basement door via the ball valves on both.
Any problems or issues doing that?
Do the mash, drain the 1st runnings into the keggle instead of the bucket since there will be enough to reach the 3 gallon mark on the site glass of the keggle now.
Water in the HLT will have been heating up 6.25 gallons for the sparge. Pump that into the Tun the same way as the strike water.
Drain 2nd runnings into the keggle to get 12 gallons.
Here's where I'm guessing I may want to get a 2nd burner? I realize I could just roll the burner inside and lift the 5.75 gallons of wort onto the burner using my hoist after I pump the sparge water to the tun. Then roll it back outside after draining the 2nd runnings in the keggle to start the boil.
I guess it boils down to whether I want to whether I want to use a hoist, or drop the bucks on a 2nd burner..
Sounds like I definitely need a pump though and from what I've read, the March 809 is the way to go.
Sooo, sorry for the long rambling, helps me to type it out and see it.
Any problems using the March pump the way I described above?
Any other thoughts?
Thanks!
Here is my current setup..
15.5g keggle with sight glass and ball valve for boiling the wort
5g kettle for heating up strike and sparge water
52 qt coleman extreme mash tun
1 SQ14 burner
My Process:
Heat up strike water in 5 gallon kettle (no ball valve), usually 3.5 to 4.5 gallons
Lift and dump into mash tun
Mash
Drain into bucket to get exact qty from first runnings since keggle site glass only starts at 3 gallons
Drain from bucket into keggle.
A few minutes before I start my vorlauf for my 1st runnings I'll start heating up my sparge water in the 5 gallon kettle and by the time the 1st runnings are done, the sparge water is ready to go into the mash tun.
Remove sparge water from burner and dump into tun, roll the burner inside and set keggle with first runnings in it on the burner, sparge for 10, vorlauf and drain 2nd runnings into keggle, roll the 7 gallons outside and start the boil.
I WANT TO MOVE TO 10 GALLON BATCHES!
Sooo, since I will be pretty much doubling everything, I want to figure out the easiest way to use what I have without buying a lot of unnecessary stuff.
Lets say I do a 28 lb grain bill which is probably as large as I would do.
I would be heating up 8.75 gallons of water for the 1st runnings and 6.25 on the sparge to get 12 gallons.
I DO have another 15.5g keg that I haven't converted yet. So I'm thinking the simplest thing to do would be...
Convert 2nd keg to HLT with site glass and ball valve.
Use that to heat up 8.75 gallons of water
Don't see any point in buying a 10 gallon pot when I have the extra keg.
Here's where I'm guessing I'll need a pump that will pump the strike water from the HLT just outside my basement door, to the mash tun just inside my basement door via the ball valves on both.
Any problems or issues doing that?
Do the mash, drain the 1st runnings into the keggle instead of the bucket since there will be enough to reach the 3 gallon mark on the site glass of the keggle now.
Water in the HLT will have been heating up 6.25 gallons for the sparge. Pump that into the Tun the same way as the strike water.
Drain 2nd runnings into the keggle to get 12 gallons.
Here's where I'm guessing I may want to get a 2nd burner? I realize I could just roll the burner inside and lift the 5.75 gallons of wort onto the burner using my hoist after I pump the sparge water to the tun. Then roll it back outside after draining the 2nd runnings in the keggle to start the boil.
I guess it boils down to whether I want to whether I want to use a hoist, or drop the bucks on a 2nd burner..
Sounds like I definitely need a pump though and from what I've read, the March 809 is the way to go.
Sooo, sorry for the long rambling, helps me to type it out and see it.
Any problems using the March pump the way I described above?
Any other thoughts?
Thanks!