NB Innkeeper AG kit - how much water to mash?

[Captain_Bigelow]

I am going to brew this tomorrow. The recipe I have shows there just being 5.25lbs of grain. How do I mash this - should I still go with the 1.25 quart per pound? If so that is only going to be about 1.5 gallons. I was thinking of upping it to about 3 gallons, so that my first and second running's are more closely matched.

I have never brewed a beer with such little quantity of grain before.

Any thoughts?

 

[KingBrianI]

Mash and sparge with whatever ratios you usually use. You can always add any extra water directly to the kettle to hit your pre-boil volume.

 

[MilwaukeeBrewGuy]

haha it must be nice to have so much free space in your mlt. I am brewing the bourbon barrel porter and will barely have enough room in my 10 igloo to do a 10g. batch of it.

Let us know how that bitter turns out, I have been eyeing up that recipe.

 

[kryolla]

I looked up the recipe and it say 6.25 lbs and I calculated a mash thickness of 1.5q per lb and with grain absorption you will need about 3 gallons of water

 

[Captain_Bigelow]

Yeah it used to be 5.25lbs of grain, then they recently updated the recipe to 6.25lbs - extra lb of golden promise.

I think it might be a little watery but I will give it a shot and report back the results.