Quickest brew day

[Airborneguy]

When do you drink?

During Sex

 

[HopMechanic]

Please don't tell me that you drink alone!!!

I do 10 gallon batches and from heating hlt water to final cleanup...fastest has been about 5 hours. All grain.

 

[Mysticmead]

3.5 hours BIAB. takes 30 minutes to heat strike water. mash for 60, 15 to get to a boil.. boil for 60, cooling takes 30 minutes 15 minutes to transfer to carboy and pitch yeast. I don't sparge and start heating the kettle with about 10 minutes left in the mash to do a mashout. I pull the bag and it gets to a boil quickly.

 

[LVBen]

During Sex

Please don't tell me that you drink alone!!!

Good one!

 

[Waterboy42]

my dad always told me never to use hot water from the tap for something you will be eating or drinking (coffee, pasta etc) as chemicals in your pipes will leech into the water. This may be an old wives tale and it will obviously depend on how old your house/pipes are, but it is something that always stuck in my head.

This is true of hot and cold water, particularly if you have old lead pipes. Granted, minerals are more soluble in warmer water, if you let the water run for a few minutes, either is fine to use.

 

[Hume-ulus]

Maybe this is not on topic but doing a larger batch gets you twice the beer and partigyle gets you even more. mash then sparge then boil. as you boil mash a bit more and get a second batch ready. chill boiled batch dump in fermenter and mash grain bed with new addition of grains if needed, sparge, boil, chill, pitch. I have been getting two batches (10-15) gallons per day and that's running around 4-5 hours. I have 5 children under 11, a wife, studies, house repairs, church, work etc..... truth be told..... I pray over my brew day.
Maybe that's my secret........

 

[MaltnHops]

The fastest I've ever gone is two 5 gallon batches in 8 hours. If I'm doing one batch, it takes about 4.5 hours. I'm going to step it up to 10 gallon batches soon.