I am new to home brew. I have just completed my fourth batch of all grain.(dart porters). I have left my ludertun/cooler with my spent grain overnight after brewing my batches.. I was lazy and clean it up the next morning. Today 8 hours after I finished I noticed the temp was still over 100 degrees and opened the valve and gained just shy or a gallon of wort. I added a gallon of hot water(120f ish) to the grain. I ended up with about a gallon and a half and took a hydromerter reading and still read 1.065.
My question is before I just throwout or compost my spent grain can I run a second batch after a nights sleep and I clean my boil kettle. Or will I be releasing off flavors. I do not think I need to worry about bacteria since I will be boiling out the second run wort.
And should I raise the sparge water temp back up near 170 and let it sit for a bit. Id guess add near boiling water to make a five gallon batch of lighter brew.probably some sort of lager
Thank you in addvance for any advice.
Tom
My question is before I just throwout or compost my spent grain can I run a second batch after a nights sleep and I clean my boil kettle. Or will I be releasing off flavors. I do not think I need to worry about bacteria since I will be boiling out the second run wort.
And should I raise the sparge water temp back up near 170 and let it sit for a bit. Id guess add near boiling water to make a five gallon batch of lighter brew.probably some sort of lager
Thank you in addvance for any advice.
Tom