badumbching
New Member
Okay, so I really want to make the jump into all grain. My only problem is I do not have a pot large enough to boil the 6.5 or so gallons of water. My current pot is 5 gallons. I really can't spend the money on a new pot right now, being a poor college student and all.
However, I have 10 pounds of grain and I'm thinking if I mash (did I use that correctly?) with the full 10 pounds, and only extract about 4 gallons of wort from it, I could have a slightly more concentrated wort. Then, add some cool, boiled water to the wort in the fermenter to bring it up to 5 gallons. Would this work?
Or maybe just using two separate pots would be a whole lot easier, if that's possible.
Any feedback is very much appreciated!
However, I have 10 pounds of grain and I'm thinking if I mash (did I use that correctly?) with the full 10 pounds, and only extract about 4 gallons of wort from it, I could have a slightly more concentrated wort. Then, add some cool, boiled water to the wort in the fermenter to bring it up to 5 gallons. Would this work?
Or maybe just using two separate pots would be a whole lot easier, if that's possible.
Any feedback is very much appreciated!