So I ordered a grain mill and I'm planning on stepping up the scale of my mini-mashes for future brews and stepping down the amount of extract that I use. I'm thinking that this weekend I'm going to pick up 20lbs of 2-row and start playing around with my system to see how much I can actually mash in my kettle and what sort of efficiency I can achieve.
So heres the deal.
I have a 5 gallon kettle that I brew with on my stovetop so I'll likely be making a few batches of around 3-4 gallons worth of unhopped, unboiled, wort throughout the day and it seems like a waste to mash a bunch of grains and then just dump it all down the drain afterwards. If I were to cool the batches down and transfer them to some sanitized carboys could I brew with it the next day? Any other suggestions on what I can do with the wort that I collect?
So heres the deal.
I have a 5 gallon kettle that I brew with on my stovetop so I'll likely be making a few batches of around 3-4 gallons worth of unhopped, unboiled, wort throughout the day and it seems like a waste to mash a bunch of grains and then just dump it all down the drain afterwards. If I were to cool the batches down and transfer them to some sanitized carboys could I brew with it the next day? Any other suggestions on what I can do with the wort that I collect?