Hey everyone, ive been secretly reading all the threads but now ive finally made an account just to throw this in your brew pot.. Ive been wanting to start AG brewing for a while so im gathering supplies.. I already had a 5 gallon glass carboy and a friend picked another up for me at an auction for a dollar haha I also have a Home Depot 5g mash tun almost fully converted. Anyways, I only have a ss stock pot thats about 3.75 gallons to the brim (and plan to get bigger when budget allows) but I want to try a 5 gallon AG batch with what I have right now. Every way I could imagine it, id still need to be able to boil the whole 5 gallons and would just need a bigger pot. BUT, and heres where I dont want to offend anyone, what if I were to essentially make 2 seperate brews.. one 2 gallon hop brew with 5 gallon batch's worth of hops.. normal 1hr boil.. and then one 3 gallon grain brew with, again, 5 gallon batch's worth of grains.. normal 1hr boil. And then just what it sounds like, marry them together in the fermenter. I figured id put the hoppy water in first then id have time to heat up sparge water in my only stock pot. What do you think? Would the grain water be too thick? Do the hops REALLY NEED to boil WITH the grains? Ive just never seen this done so oddly before but maybe someone out there has.. If so, maybe some advice? And I will do this out of pure curiosity, so dont bother with, "just try it" this is more of a pregame pep talk. I need your wisdom HBT!