I'm brewing an Imperial Stout (OG:1.099) with 24.5 pounds of grain. I normally do 1.25 qts/lb for my mash and then a mashout addition before sparging. For this particular beer that total volume of water will be greater than my normal boiling volume.
Should I go no sparge? Or should I lower my qts/lb ratio and not do a mash out addition? I'm leaning towards mashing with a 1.1 ratio and no mash out. That'll give me 4-5 gallons to sparge with. Just looking to bounce this idea off of you guys before brewing tomorrow.
Also, I have an 8 gallon kettle, so its not like I can do the world's largest boil. For the mash tun and HLT I use converted 10 gallon coolers.
Should I go no sparge? Or should I lower my qts/lb ratio and not do a mash out addition? I'm leaning towards mashing with a 1.1 ratio and no mash out. That'll give me 4-5 gallons to sparge with. Just looking to bounce this idea off of you guys before brewing tomorrow.
Also, I have an 8 gallon kettle, so its not like I can do the world's largest boil. For the mash tun and HLT I use converted 10 gallon coolers.