Using 2 pots for BIAB (my first all grain recipe)

[cheeseplease]

Hi everyone, I'm planning on brewing a 1 gallon all grain smash recipe on my stove. This will be my very first all grain recipe. I will use 2 pounds of maris otter and 1 ounce of amarillo hops.

I don't have a large gallon brew pot but I do have 2 one gallon pots. I read in another thread that for a 1 gallon batch I should use 1.25 gallons for the mash. If I split the recipe and put 1 pound of maris otter in 0.625 gallons of water in each pot, do I also divide the hops in half and add 0.5 ounce per pot? Or should I add the 1 ounce of hops to only one pot?

Thanks for your help

 

[supermutantbrewmaster]

I frequently use two pots for mashing 2.5 gallon batches. You can split the batch just be careful to monitor temps in both pots.

 

[doug293cz]

Hi everyone, I'm planning on brewing a 1 gallon all grain smash recipe on my stove. This will be my very first all grain recipe. I will use 2 pounds of maris otter and 1 ounce of amarillo hops.

I don't have a large gallon brew pot but I do have 2 one gallon pots. I read in another thread that for a 1 gallon batch I should use 1.25 gallons for the mash. If I split the recipe and put 1 pound of maris otter in 0.625 gallons of water in each pot, do I also divide the hops in half and add 0.5 ounce per pot? Or should I add the 1 ounce of hops to only one pot?

Thanks for your help

Split the hops between the pots. I did a single hop (but not SMASH) with Amarillo and loved it.

Brew on

 

[jtratcliff]

You could also possibly mash in one pot with all the grain and as much of the water as will fit, dunk sparge with remaining water required for the final volume in the other pot.

Add as much of the 2nd runnings as you can comfortably boil back to the 1st pot for the boil with all the hops and slowly continue to add the extra wort as boil-off makes room for it.

Or... You know... Buy a bigger pot

 

[Weezy]

1.25 gallons mash water for a one gallon batch is a full volume, traditional biab single pot type deal. Use a thicker mash in pot one, like 80 fl.oz. (0.6 gal) For something around 1.4 qt/lb ratio. Then dunk sparge in the second pot with another 80 fl.oz. in that one.

You can just boil and cool them separately.

Or you can go to walmart and spend $11 on a 16 quart stainless pot.