mangine77
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So I've done about 8 partial mashes at this point and I'm wondering if I should be doing this? The beers are turning out really good but I don't know if this has an impact.
I have a 5 gallon kettle and with most recipes by the time I combine the sparge water with the main kettle, I'm somewhere around 4 gallons in the brewpot.
After it's started boiling and I've added my extract and hops, I top up the kettle pretty darn close to the top, so that I'm boiling almost 5 gallons. I leave just enough room so I don't get a boil-over.
By the time I've cooled the wort and moved it to the fermenter, I need very little cool top off water. Does this make the beer more solid because you've boiled most of it together??
Is this what I should be doing?
I have a 5 gallon kettle and with most recipes by the time I combine the sparge water with the main kettle, I'm somewhere around 4 gallons in the brewpot.
After it's started boiling and I've added my extract and hops, I top up the kettle pretty darn close to the top, so that I'm boiling almost 5 gallons. I leave just enough room so I don't get a boil-over.
By the time I've cooled the wort and moved it to the fermenter, I need very little cool top off water. Does this make the beer more solid because you've boiled most of it together??
Is this what I should be doing?