I am trying to make my own setup and this Brutus20 looks pretty okay.
I only wanna use 2 pots....heat the water in one, add the malts, mash in it. Drain the liquid into the second pot and boil it there. Then using a pump and a plate chiller, the liquid would end up in the fermentor.
Now...I simply dont understand two things:
1, how does this recirculation mashing work? Let's say I wanna mash with 10 gallons of water...then 5 goes into each pot and I start heating the water and once I have reached mash temp I dough in and start recirculating the liquid from one pot to another?
2, what does it exactly do? Recirculation gives me more control over the temperature?
I only wanna use 2 pots....heat the water in one, add the malts, mash in it. Drain the liquid into the second pot and boil it there. Then using a pump and a plate chiller, the liquid would end up in the fermentor.
Now...I simply dont understand two things:
1, how does this recirculation mashing work? Let's say I wanna mash with 10 gallons of water...then 5 goes into each pot and I start heating the water and once I have reached mash temp I dough in and start recirculating the liquid from one pot to another?
2, what does it exactly do? Recirculation gives me more control over the temperature?