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Plus you said earlier a while ago that using A ten gallon cooler your doing a ten gallon batch.. Does that mean you sparge twice in order to collect ten gallons wort or is that ten gallon cooler large enough to collect ten gallons wort with only single sparge? I know that doing 8and a half...

What's the first decoction then? Is it the original 1 hour Mash? Or two decoction steps to bring from 150 to 162 after 1 hour mash?

I usually don't let them get out of husks before drying.. Some obviously pop out though.. Next time I'll try it your way.. By that I mean waiting for most of them to shoot out..

Also @bracconiere, lightly sucking up malted barley with roots still attached, using a vacuum with ridged hose makes a pretty good job of breaking them off.

Kay I've done some malting singe last I've been here. Although my efficiencies aren't there quite yet.. Probably around 50% (ouch).. I did 8.5 gallons (got a newer 11 gallon kettle) using cooler Mash tun and kettle. Used 17 lbs homemade malt to 8.5 preboil gallons and netted a whopping 1039 og...

Is that with both the t shirt and fermenter submerged?

Well I was wondering that if I ever upgrade my bk to 15 gallons if I would be capable to do 10 gallon batches with 10 gal Mash tun.. But @csantoni kind of answered my question when saying that a 5 gal Mash tun is good for 5 gallon batches.. That is with beers under 1060..

Kay thnks.. Do you do 10 gallon batches with a 10 gallon cooler ? Or is a bigger cooler required for 10 gal batches?

Sorry but what's a decoction step? And is it possible with batch sparge in a cooler mash tun? Also what do you mean with "same as I've been doing for 20 years" ?

Thanks.! Good stuff.. Found a roll of ss mesh last night.. Going to make some drying racks with that... And see where it takes me.. Should work..

Hi @bracconiere ... so what let's you know that the malt is ready to take out of oven? Or is 12 hours at 170f a rule of thumb?

Rookie question but whats a decoction mash ? And is it possible with batch sparging in a cooler mash?

I do have a mill although it might crush a bit to fine..

Also thanks for the great responses everyone 👍 🙂

I have no fermentation temperature control at all.. never crossed my mind that it could be that serious.. what are the ill results to be expected from a beer fermenting at around 70 degrees? I'll really have to consider in a fermentation chamber.. is a 10 gallon batch with 10 gallon cooler mash...