Overnight mashing

[dustinolsen84]

Do any of you mash overnight? Any success?

 

[Gnomebrewer]

It's talked about in Gordon Strong's book 'Brewing Better Beers' (It's actually a section by Joe Formanek).

 

[Magnus314]

Yes. Works great.

I get very high efficiency and high attenuation/low final gravities.

 

[dustinolsen84]

Yes. Works great.

I get very high efficiency and high attenuation/low final gravities.

Do you do a mash out?

 

[dustinolsen84]

Do you mash ou5

 

[dustinolsen84]

Mash out

 

[Aristotelian]

My last brew I mashed the night before, then stuck the wort in boil pot in the fridge ready to go to boil the next day. Worked great.

 

[wilserbrewer]

Do you do a mash out?

I would guess a mashout is of little to zero value after an overnight mash, anything and everything is done that could possibly happen....go to boil.

 

[Magnus314]

I don't. It seems unnecessary. I just did this Friday night/Saturday and got 98% efficiency, so all the sweet wort is getting rinsed out.

 

[HausBrauerei_Harvey]

I did a thread on this topic about a year ago. There a few good pointers there if you are interested.

I stopped doing this after about 6 months as I found a better way to brew an maximize time with the family (which keeps SWMBO happy). I just mash in ca 9AM and do a 2+ hour mash, then finish up when the kids are napping. I still do overnight mash from time-to-time, especially if i'm going to crank out a double brew day.

It's a nice time-saver, good luck.