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I have read HBT posts from all grain brewers who say they finish batches in under 4 hours. I have been brewing all-grain a long time on a variety of different setups and the one thing those experiences seem to have in common is that it typically takes me about 5 and 1/2 hours start to finish to complete the process.
I tried to record the times and activities performed during my last batch which was only a 5 and not my usual 10 gallon size and came up with this. If I was doing several things concurrently I put them in one group. I think part of the reason I finished right around 5 hours for this batch was because it was 5 gallons as opposed to 10 as I need to heat/boil less water/wort which consequently took less time.
So what steps below can I cut out or cut back on to break the mythical 5 hour brew day barrier?
In case it isn't obvious, times are shown in hours:minutes:seconds format.
I tried to record the times and activities performed during my last batch which was only a 5 and not my usual 10 gallon size and came up with this. If I was doing several things concurrently I put them in one group. I think part of the reason I finished right around 5 hours for this batch was because it was 5 gallons as opposed to 10 as I need to heat/boil less water/wort which consequently took less time.
So what steps below can I cut out or cut back on to break the mythical 5 hour brew day barrier?
Code:
[U]Brew day activity[/U]
[U]start time duration end time[/U]
setup brew structure, fill and heat mash water, weigh and crush grains,
add to mash tun
0:00:00 0:45:00 0:45:00
add mash water to grain, set pH and mash
0:45:00 1:00:00 1:45:00
vorlauf and pump wort to keggle
1:45:00 0:10:00 1:55:00
batch sparge, weigh hops
1:55:00 0:45:00 2:40:00
start boil, add simethicone
2:40:00 0:10:00 2:50:00
bring to boil and boil
2:50:00 1:15:00 4:05:00
cool with CFC and pitch yeast starter, move primaries to fermentation freezer
4:05:00 0:45:00 4:50:00
clean up, put away
4:50:00 0:15:00 5:05:00
In case it isn't obvious, times are shown in hours:minutes:seconds format.