Rolly
Well-Known Member
Brewed my first all grain yesterday and it's bubbling away as we speak. It was the Northern Brewer Caribou Slobber (Moose Drool clone).
I used my 10 gallon rubbermaid cooler with stainless braid and got 6.5 gallons of 1.047 wort preboil...meaning 80% efficiency! Post boil gravity per recipe was 1.052 and mine was 1.055.
My cooler kept my mash at 153 the enitire hour. Then did two batch sparges.
The only place where it didn't go well was the mashout. I tried to get the mash up to 170 with 1 gallon of boiling water, but it only brought it up to about 158! Does anyone know of a reliable calculator for a mashout step?
All grain is really not that complicated, and I learned everything from reading this board..thanks for sharing all your experience
I used my 10 gallon rubbermaid cooler with stainless braid and got 6.5 gallons of 1.047 wort preboil...meaning 80% efficiency! Post boil gravity per recipe was 1.052 and mine was 1.055.
My cooler kept my mash at 153 the enitire hour. Then did two batch sparges.
The only place where it didn't go well was the mashout. I tried to get the mash up to 170 with 1 gallon of boiling water, but it only brought it up to about 158! Does anyone know of a reliable calculator for a mashout step?
All grain is really not that complicated, and I learned everything from reading this board..thanks for sharing all your experience