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Yesterday I had a few buddies come over for my first brew-day, and aside from rewarded them with some pizza, home-made bacon-wrapped, chorizo & cream cheese-stuffed jalepenos, and plenty of beer to boot! For the record, I am using a all-grain setup with a 10g cooler mash-tun & 8g kettle. The...

Thanks! I ended up starting brew day before checking back to this thread, so I ended up using 1.25qt/lb (4.25g mash) and sparged with an additional 3.75 gal, which gave me about 6.25g pre-boil volume, which is what I was shooting for.

I currently live in San Tan Valley, but I have lived all over (in the greater Phx Metro area(s)).

I've got a number of pipes, and several lbs of jars filled with various tobacco. I'm rather partial to latakia, and I have a tendency to add Pirate Kake to various others when I smoke, (but certainly not always!)

Good to know. It seems to use the 1.25 figure for the mash and then adjust the sparge for pre-boil volume, (which makes the most sense to me). Thanks!

Perhaps I misunderstood the 1.5 - 2 quarts per lb of grain...maybe that is TOTAL water. Perhaps I will just go with either what the brew shop says or BeerSmith then.

Forgive me if the answer to this could be found in a sticky, but I thought I would ask while searching for some clarity, so here goes... I have read that you want to use 1.5 - 2 quarts of water per lb of grain in the mash, (and then a similar amount for the sparge). I am preparing for a 5gal...

Obligatory intro first post: I have several buddies who brew and I have wanted to brew myself for a while now, but have never pulled the trigger. That has now changed, as my wife bought my an all-grain kit for Christmas - (to which I have already been adding to myself...) That said, I do...