I've made a 10gallon Rubbermaid cooler mash tun and have a few questions about all grain. I've seen some tutorials that do the mash in two stages I believe but I thought I could or should just do it all in one with my mash tun.
I went to brew365 calculator only inputing my batch size, grain bill, boil time and target mash temp leaving the rest as default. It says I need 8.88 gal total but 3.41 mash water, 5.47 sparge water. This is the part I'm confused about the sparge/strike difference. Can I not just add 8.88 gallons to my mash tun to get my wort? Or do I need to do 3.41gallons for the mash time then 5.47gallons after? And how long for each? And do I vollaourf? (sp?) both?
Thanks in advance for my newbie questions
I went to brew365 calculator only inputing my batch size, grain bill, boil time and target mash temp leaving the rest as default. It says I need 8.88 gal total but 3.41 mash water, 5.47 sparge water. This is the part I'm confused about the sparge/strike difference. Can I not just add 8.88 gallons to my mash tun to get my wort? Or do I need to do 3.41gallons for the mash time then 5.47gallons after? And how long for each? And do I vollaourf? (sp?) both?
Thanks in advance for my newbie questions