Hey guys,
I have started doing a mash out even though i have been told that when batch sparging it isn't necessary. I noticed I was over-attenuating and getting a thin body on all my beers and after reading up on it I decided I might be sparging too slowly and allowing the wort to drop in temp before getting it up to a boil (i take a long time sparging and i read the enzymes keep working over this period).
Anyways, Instead of doing an infusion of boiling water to reach mash out I was wondering how I can go about doing a decoction to mash out. How do I calculate how much wort to pull from the mash to reach mash out temps? Would I pull a thick decoction with grains, or just drain liquid wort into a pot and boil it?
I have never done any sort of decoction step, so this will be my first experience with it.
my set up is just a cooler mash tun with a bazooka screen. I have a 10 gal boil kettle which i use to heat up my strike and sparge water, as well as the boil itself. I drain first runnings into a bucket, then pour in my sparge water, then transfer from bucket to kettle. then i sparge to into the bucket and transfer that to the kettle as well.
thanks for any advice!
I have started doing a mash out even though i have been told that when batch sparging it isn't necessary. I noticed I was over-attenuating and getting a thin body on all my beers and after reading up on it I decided I might be sparging too slowly and allowing the wort to drop in temp before getting it up to a boil (i take a long time sparging and i read the enzymes keep working over this period).
Anyways, Instead of doing an infusion of boiling water to reach mash out I was wondering how I can go about doing a decoction to mash out. How do I calculate how much wort to pull from the mash to reach mash out temps? Would I pull a thick decoction with grains, or just drain liquid wort into a pot and boil it?
I have never done any sort of decoction step, so this will be my first experience with it.
my set up is just a cooler mash tun with a bazooka screen. I have a 10 gal boil kettle which i use to heat up my strike and sparge water, as well as the boil itself. I drain first runnings into a bucket, then pour in my sparge water, then transfer from bucket to kettle. then i sparge to into the bucket and transfer that to the kettle as well.
thanks for any advice!