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Good Evening Folks -
Doing my first AG Saturday and I'm stoked. But I do have a question on the amount of water I will be using. I am doing a Robust Porter asking for 11 lbs of grain. Using John Palmer's ratio of 1.5 - 2.0 quarts/lb for mash and roughly 1/2 gallon/lb for sparge this gives me a total of up to 11 gallons of water. Now, I realize a lot of water remains in the mashed grains, but I have an 8 gallon brewpot, which I'd like to fill with 7.5 gallons (at the most) of wort. Am I in trouble here or will I be OK? Any suggestions....
Thanks much!
Doing my first AG Saturday and I'm stoked. But I do have a question on the amount of water I will be using. I am doing a Robust Porter asking for 11 lbs of grain. Using John Palmer's ratio of 1.5 - 2.0 quarts/lb for mash and roughly 1/2 gallon/lb for sparge this gives me a total of up to 11 gallons of water. Now, I realize a lot of water remains in the mashed grains, but I have an 8 gallon brewpot, which I'd like to fill with 7.5 gallons (at the most) of wort. Am I in trouble here or will I be OK? Any suggestions....
Thanks much!