Amount of water during boil

[wolves63]

I only have a 22 quart pot and am thinking of doing an all grain set up. My question is since my pot is so small and all of the recipes I am looking at state I will need a 6.50 gallon boil (too much for me) could I do a 5 gallon the replace the water I lose to boil off at the end to hit my target OG? What are the problems associated with this?


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[poptarts]

you wont be able to sparge much or any at all so you will get bad efficiency and you hop utilization will go down.

 

[duboman]

You would be better off scaling the recipe down to a 2.5 gallon batch and do that or............get a new 10-15 gallon kettle.

If you really want to go AG those are really your choices for a traditional mash, otherwise you can look into BIAB brewing but you will still need the bigger kettle or only do one gallon batches.

 

[farmskis]

+1 for scaling it down or getting large enough pot for your batch size.