Made (big?) mistake with my Mash thickness

sddanc · Feb 5, 2012

I am doing the left hand milk stout recipe found here on the boards.

11lbs of grain and I mistakenly mashed with about 6gl of water. Frack.

Im crunching numbers now and am about 20 mins into the 75 min mash. Now catching my mistake, can I save it?

Mash tun with copper manifold

Mashing at 154F

hoppymonkey · Feb 5, 2012

It'll probably be just fine. A lot of people do that on every brew.

mux · Feb 5, 2012

Maybe draw off some water and use it for lautering.

beninan · Feb 5, 2012

Consider it a no-sparge brew. Maybe even add a little more water to get 8 gallons, assuming the grain will soak up 1.5 gallons, you should be left with 6.5 gallons pre-boil.

sddanc · Feb 5, 2012

drew out about a gallon out the mash and used it to sparge + hot water.

at the end of the day, ended up with exactly 5 gallons and a OG of 1.0547

RM-MN · Feb 5, 2012

If you had it in a bag I'd call it a BIAB batch that was a little low on water. You might sparge with a little less water than you planned and boil it down a little longer but it certainly is a good start on making beer.

LuiInIdaho · Feb 5, 2012

RM-MN said:
If you had it in a bag I'd call it a BIAB batch that was a little low on water. You might sparge with a little less water than you planned and boil it down a little longer but it certainly is a good start on making beer.

There is not too much difference in what you did with No Sparge or BIAB. I am sure that it will be fine.

Mark :mug:

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