Hello !

[john langley]

Hello from New Rochelle, NY. Just starting out again after not brewing for many many years.

Now doing 1.5 gallon batches, whole grain mashes.

 

[KYBLUE]

Welcome back.

Enjoy the brew.

 

[MaxStout]

Welcome to the forum, from Minnesota!

Just curious--are you doing 3-vessel AG, or BIAB for your 1.5 gal batches?

 

[john langley]

Welcome to the forum, from Minnesota!

Just curious--are you doing 3-vessel AG, or BIAB for your 1.5 gal batches?

I mash in a pot using a strike water calculator, verify the temp and adjust if necessary. Then, I wrap the pot in a homemade cozy made from a car windshield sun screen and place in the oven set to bread proof, which maintains 100 degrees. Just enough to maintain the mash for an hour plus.

At the end of the mash, I pour it into another pot lined with a biab bag. I sparge using additional hot water through the bag and a strainer and come up with a total boil volume of approx. 1.8 gallons. I basically just use the bag to filter the grains for sparging.

 

[MaxStout]

Mash straight in the kettle and BIAB for sparge. Neat adaptation. It works, and does the same thing. Simple and elegant.

My winter format (when I don't want to sit in a cold garage to do full BIAB batches), I do 2.5 gal BIAB batches on the stovetop in a 5 gal kettle. I have to do a pourover sparge with the bag atop a strainer, as there's not enough space in the kettle for full volume.

 

[john langley]

Sounds similar to what I'm doing, just starting out. . Actually having issues with my fermentation. I have a thread in another forum explaining

 

[JohnSand]

Welcome from across the Sound!
(Okay, a ways east too)