Fastest Brew Day Ever!

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I measured and ground my grains last night, all 19.25lbs of them. (10 gal batch)

At 7:00 I fired up the new electric brew kettle and heated my strike water.
I used hot filtered tap water, so it only took 15min to reach my strike.

Mashed in and let it sit for an hour.

Heated my sparge water, one large batch sparge, 7.5 gal of it!
Took another 15 min.

Sparged into buckets, and lifted the buckets back into the electric kettle.

Boiling again in less than 20 min! 11 gal boil!

Boiled for an hour then used the plate chiller for the first time.

Wow! Ready to pitch in another 15 min. Using nothing more than gravity to move the wort.

Pitched and cleaned up and was done by 11:00am

10 gallons in 4 hours!:mug:

What's your best time?:D
 
And you didn't start another 10 gallon batch why?:)
Congrats on time, that's awesome!
 
I waste too much time sourcing all of my stuff from all over the house. That wastes so much time that I no longer have the ability to work that fast. My last brew was my fastest in a long time due to 5500 watt new element and cutting boil time to 60 minutes, also eliminating the 30 minute mash rest I was doing. Once I hit the clean up stage I really start to drag and rarely can I get near 4 hours.

Of course using hot tap water is cheating. :)
 
That's impressive!!! Makes me want to drill a hole in my kettle and start adding heating elements.

Given I am still getting use to the transition to apartment brewing, but my brew day is still 5+ hours.
 
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