I'm brewing an English IPA this week that has around 14# of grain. I'm looking for a pre-boil volume of 7 gallons. I punched in my numbers to http://www.brewheads.com/batch.php and it looks like my strike volume is 4.38 gallons and sparge is 4.17. Usually I have around a one gallon "mash out" with 180f water to bring up the temp before I collect my first runnings. This time it's just the strike and sparge water. Will this be sufficient clean all the sugars off the grain?
No mashout in batch sparge with big grain bill?
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You don't need to do a mash out with batch sparging anyway, as the first round of sparge water can just be hotter which would work as a mash-out. A mash-out doesn't really "clean all the sugars off of the grain". A mash-out raises the temperature of the grainbed to denature the enzymes. Because you're not fly sparging, it's not necessary anyway.
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