j-dub
Active Member
Friends, after 6 months of extract brewing I am making the transition to AG! I have made a mash tun from a 10g Igloo cooler. I have made a false bottom from a piece of perforated stainless steel and put together some fittings, ball valve etc... I tested it tonight by filling it with a few gallons of water and then draining. After the tun had stopped draining, I found that it still had a half a gallon of water in it. After doing some research it seems that this type of false bottom usually abandons more liquid in the tun than some others. I read one example for estimating mash water volume, and it even used 0.5 gallons in the example equation (maybe they used 0.5 to make the example easy?):
http://www.brew365.com/technique_calculating_mash_water_volume.php
I can't help but feel like this is too much, and will kill my efficiency. I am hoping some of you who have a similar set-up will lend some advice.
YIB, JDub
http://www.brew365.com/technique_calculating_mash_water_volume.php
I can't help but feel like this is too much, and will kill my efficiency. I am hoping some of you who have a similar set-up will lend some advice.
YIB, JDub