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As the title states, I just finished my first all grain brew(s). I am limited in my boil volume by my small apartment electric stove so I just went with gal batches.
Started at 8:45 am this morning with BBD's Biscuit Brown and then moved on to Walker's Holy Grail Porter and finished cleaning up about 10 mins ago 3:45 pm. So 7 hours for two AG brews I felt good.
I snagged a 5 gal water cooler/dispenser thing from my folks place over the holidays and built myself a MLT yesterday. Thing works great! Used info from Deathbrewers guide as well as How To Brew.
With all that I have read on here and having brewed ~20 extract partial mash batches I felt that the process was pretty easy. I didn't get great efficiency but mainly attribute that to my LHBS super crappy grain mill. I ran one grain bill through their mill twice (read that on here somewhere) and got better efficiency out of that one than the other.
The reason I wanted to post this was emphasize to budding brewers that all-grain is nothing to be intimidated by if you understand the process. After brewing many extract based batches I felt I understood the basics of what is required and the processes that produce these things we need to make beer.
The other point I want to make is that small space or limited equipment can be overcome.
Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now and just say Thank Youto the folks here at HBT. You are very knowledgeable folks and are willing to share that without being arrogant and that is very unique in the world wide web of forums.
Started at 8:45 am this morning with BBD's Biscuit Brown and then moved on to Walker's Holy Grail Porter and finished cleaning up about 10 mins ago 3:45 pm. So 7 hours for two AG brews I felt good.
I snagged a 5 gal water cooler/dispenser thing from my folks place over the holidays and built myself a MLT yesterday. Thing works great! Used info from Deathbrewers guide as well as How To Brew.
With all that I have read on here and having brewed ~20 extract partial mash batches I felt that the process was pretty easy. I didn't get great efficiency but mainly attribute that to my LHBS super crappy grain mill. I ran one grain bill through their mill twice (read that on here somewhere) and got better efficiency out of that one than the other.
The reason I wanted to post this was emphasize to budding brewers that all-grain is nothing to be intimidated by if you understand the process. After brewing many extract based batches I felt I understood the basics of what is required and the processes that produce these things we need to make beer.
The other point I want to make is that small space or limited equipment can be overcome.
Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now and just say Thank Youto the folks here at HBT. You are very knowledgeable folks and are willing to share that without being arrogant and that is very unique in the world wide web of forums.
