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I think it's an 8 gallon kettle, but time and effort aren't really factors. I know I could use extract, but prefer for some reason to do it all grain. I'll be watching football and drinking good beer with 2 of my best friends for this beer so not concerned with an extra hour and a half of...

My 5 gallon recipe is about 21 pounds, in the idea that I'm wanting to do my plan would be to mash 11.5 pounds into 3 gallons of wort or there about, and then to mash the other 11.5 pounds into 3 gallons of wort. So it would be the same amount of grain as doing all 21 pounds in a 10 gallon...

I'm brewing a Barley Wine this weekend but only have a 5 gallon mash tun, I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. Time is not an issue so our first idea is to cut the grains and water in half and to make a 2.5 gallon batch, and then do the mashing and sparging process again add it...