I'm about to launch into the world of AG. Just wondering if the following ideas will work:
Let's say, I drop my grain into the mash water and the resulting temperature is too low.
What if, I pulled out say, 1/2 a gallon of water from the tun, heated it up to almost boil, and slowly add it back to the tun. Would that work?
Another thought if that won't work... I remove "1/2 a gallon" of mash tun water... and add it to the sparge pot... and quickly replace the 1/2 gallon I stole with fresh "boiling water" I had in another pot, ready for such a situation?
For cooling, what about just adding a few cubes of ice?
Let's say, I drop my grain into the mash water and the resulting temperature is too low.
What if, I pulled out say, 1/2 a gallon of water from the tun, heated it up to almost boil, and slowly add it back to the tun. Would that work?
Another thought if that won't work... I remove "1/2 a gallon" of mash tun water... and add it to the sparge pot... and quickly replace the 1/2 gallon I stole with fresh "boiling water" I had in another pot, ready for such a situation?
For cooling, what about just adding a few cubes of ice?