All-Grain Brewers: How long does your typical brew day take?

[Sherpa FE]

From equipment roll out to roll back in, 5 hrs.

 

[pabloj13]

but if i have to look at the tank to see what's there, then who cares? What i'm saying is, if i can't taste any difference, then what's the problem?

Anything living (bacteria, whatever) is going to be killed in the boil. And if the water tastes fine, who cares what the inside of the water tank looks like?

+1

 

[atoughram]

Well depending how much I drink and how good a job I do cleaning 4 to 4 1/2 hours.

:rockin:

Pre-crushed grain
Get everything out and setup and cleaned - 30 minutes
Fill strike water and heat - 20 minutes
Dough-in - 5 minutes
Mash - 1 hour (Step mashes are longer)
Sparge - 20 minutes
Boil - 85 minutes (Probably takes 25 minutes to come to a boil)
Cool and fill fermenters - 30 minutes
Clean up - 30 minutes.

4hr 40 minutes total....

Then add 15 minutes for every pint drank over 3 pints...

 

[Hackwood]

8+hours. I'm brewing and relaxing so I'm not in any hurry!

 

[WarblyTremolo]

Weighing and crushing grain included and all the clean up afterward and my brew day is usually about 4 1/2 - 5 hours for a 5 gallon batch.

 

[scutiger]

For a 5 gallon AG batch: breaking out my equipment, heating strike water, mash, sparge, boil, chill, pitch, clean up all in 4.5 hours.

 

[Peruvian802]

Pre crushed grains, 5 gallon all grain, 2 batch sparge in 4 hrs start to clean up this morning.

 

[Glynn]

5 hrs

 

[wailingguitar]

From mashing in to pitching yeast is about 3 hours and 15 minutes, give or take... more like a total of 4 hours if you include time to heat water, clean up afterwards, etc.

I heat water in a 33qt kettle on a bayou classic, mash in a cooler, do about 45 minutes mash rest plus about 10 minutes to recirc... about an hour to run off to 6.5-7 gallons, bring to boil and boil for an hour, use immersion chiller

 

[RoundKid]

On Friday I brewed three ten gallon batches in nine hours (7:30am-4:30pm).

Only prep was grains milled at LHBS and yeast starters.

 

[tgmartin000]

5 hours including an hour long whirlpool hop stand. Add at least an hour and a half when making lagers or anything with low mash temp and pilsner malt.

For the first time today I started heating my kettle while I was sparging. That saved some time, for sure.

 

[Cubslover]

3.5hrs for me. 5gal batches. Single infusion mash, batch sparge. Start boiling as I sparge.

 

[doublehaul]

3.5hrs for me. 5gal batches. Single infusion mash, batch sparge. Start boiling as I sparge.

I have thought about starting the boil during the sparge. The only trouble I see is if u come up short on your target volume. Im going to try this next batch

 

[annoyingrob]

I think I did 10 gallons in about 4 hours a few weeks ago, maybe 4.5. A big time-saver for me is just no-chill brewing. I took apart my immersion chiller a few months back to make a counter-flow chiller with the copper, but never finished it. Instead I've been dumping the boiling wort into empty corny kegs, and throwing it in my basement to chill naturally. It's cut a huge amount of time out of my brew day, and it's so easy to just pitch the yeast a day or two later when I have the time. I don't know if I'll ever go back.

 

[deadrat]

for 20-25L (5.5 - 7 gallons), 60 minute mash, 60 minute boil, no chill - about 3.5 hours.

for a 38L (10 gallon) batch, about 4-4.5 hours, as I have to 90 minute boil and stagger the sparge.

Add half an hour for chilling (usually anything late hopped only).

 

[swackattack]

4.6l5 to 6. If I'm brewing on my own, its on the lower end, if I'm doing a 90 min mash or boil or both its 6+. I recently discovered how much more I like brewing alone.

 

[brewESQ]

set up and let strike water get to temp: 20 min
mash: 60 min (generally) + 10 min to mix and tend to
sparge: 30-45 min
boil: 60 min (gen) + 10 min lead time coming to rolling boil
cool down: 30-45 min
pitch yeast, etc: 10 min
clean up: 30-60 min

TOTAL: 4.5 - 5.5 hours

 

[brewESQ]

Instead I've been dumping the boiling wort into empty corny kegs, and throwing it in my basement to chill naturally. It's cut a huge amount of time out of my brew day, and it's so easy to just pitch the yeast a day or two later when I have the time. I don't know if I'll ever go back.

How does this affect the beer, if at all? Is it cloudier (chill haze, etc)?

 

[firerat]

Start to finish, 4-5 hours depending.

 

[MNDan]

I'm surprised to see how many people only boil 60 minutes - I thought 90 was the standard.

 

[firerat]

I'm surprised to see how many people only boil 60 minutes - I thought 90 was the standard.

I'm a 90 minute boil guy.

 

[ajlee]

Pre-crushed grain, 5 gallon batch, batch sparge, about 5 hours.

 

[cgg]

Sweet beginning to bitter end -> 6 hours.
Soon to upgrade from a turkey fryer to a Blichmann burner, and hoping that will shave half an hour to 45 minutes from current times.

 

[djt17]

I'm surprised to see how many people only boil 60 minutes - I thought 90 was the standard.

I only boil 90 min when using all Pilsner base malt. Everything else..60 min

 

[Paul_Aris]

I usually leave me stuff set-up in the garage once I get it out for the year. That way I can brew at will with out to much getting stuff out and setting it up. This only works for Spring-summer because in the fall I use that side of the garage for other hobbies.

So I usually start at 7:30 in the morning and get done around 3:30 PM for two back to back 10 gallon batches. 20 gallons total. Last week I only had enough ingredients to do one 10 gallon batch. I had my yeast pitched by noon. I Just had some clean up of the boil kettle, wort chiller and tools to do. Felt like a vacation day after doing two back to back brews.

 

[Jacinthebox]

from heating mash water, to cleaning gear...5 hours.
We do 2 (5-6 gal) batches (2 tuns/2 pots)

 

[user 161257]

From the moment I start drawing water to cleaning up the last bit of equipment, I am looking about about 6-7 hours.

I still brew on an eletric stove unfortunately.

 

[gavball6]

I am definitely a 4.5-5 hour guy start to finish...

 

[MaddBaggins]

I typically run about 6 hours start to finish clean up. I've gone 9 before on a big barleywine. Lots of boil down.

 

[pdietert]

Our typical time per batch is around 4 hours for a 5 gallon and 5 for a 10 gallon. We (two of us) did a 5 gallon triple decoction mash (just to say we did it) for a dopplebock plus another 10 gallon batch on 7/4. It took about 12 hours total. The triple decoction mash itself was almost 5 hours long. We did do some concurrent brewing for the two batches but also do a full 60 minute sparge on both and a 90 minute boil on the dopplebock.