Streamlining the brew day

[beernutz]

Sorry to hear, tho it is funny. I read up on some ways to make brewday go faster in a byo article a few years back and when I went to implement them on a pumpkin brew day all hell broke loose... Very long day haha

Did you go with a 45 minute mash?

Well the plan was to do my standard 60 minute mash but I ended up taking another 15 or so minutes because I stupidly attached the pump on my mash tun upside down when I was starting to vorlauf. Before I realized what I'd done I had pumped mash and grain backwards and up into the pump clogging it. I then had to take the pump apart, which isn't that hard, and clean it.

I made the mistake because I have quick disconnects on each end of the pump so I can use it both on the mash tun and boil kettle. But when connecting the pump ends I didn't look closely enough at the little black flow direction arrow which was headed in the wrong direction. I took a white sharpie and drew a big white directional arrow on the pump so hopefully I won't fubar that again.

I'm going to try a 45 minute mash sometime in the future though. I think almost all of the conversion occurs in less time than that so why not give it a try?