nianticcardplayer
Homebrewing Since 2009
Good Day Everyone;
I have gone from extract to extract/steeping to partial mash and now onto all grain brewing and my first two recipes that I am doing are the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone from BYO and the Blue Moon Clone from this forum, going with Wayne's #2 recipe.
My question is I have put together my mash tun and I will be doing batch sparging to start with. I have used a 10 gallon rubber maid round orange cooler as my mash tun. I have checked it for leaks using cold water at the 8 gallon mark for two hours and not a drop then the next day I used hot liquid to check temp retention. I ended up using gradually heated water to 150 degrees to the 7 gallon mark.... I started off with 100 degree water and stepped it up 20 degrees til I got to about 150 and held that temp within a degree for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
How do all of you "pre-heat" your mash tun coolers am I going about it the right way.
Thanks in advance.
Ron B.
I have gone from extract to extract/steeping to partial mash and now onto all grain brewing and my first two recipes that I am doing are the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone from BYO and the Blue Moon Clone from this forum, going with Wayne's #2 recipe.
My question is I have put together my mash tun and I will be doing batch sparging to start with. I have used a 10 gallon rubber maid round orange cooler as my mash tun. I have checked it for leaks using cold water at the 8 gallon mark for two hours and not a drop then the next day I used hot liquid to check temp retention. I ended up using gradually heated water to 150 degrees to the 7 gallon mark.... I started off with 100 degree water and stepped it up 20 degrees til I got to about 150 and held that temp within a degree for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
How do all of you "pre-heat" your mash tun coolers am I going about it the right way.
Thanks in advance.
Ron B.