BigCypress
Active Member
Been brewing extracts and mini-mashes for a few years and recently picked up and modded a garage-sale mini-fridge to use as a fermentation chamber with 3-gallon carboys. I figured that was as good an excuse as any to try all-grain with the BIAB method, so I went ahead and bought a 3-gallon AG kit from NB.
I currently own a 5-gallon kettle that I use on the stovetop, which has always been fine for partial-boil extract kits. The kit I bought has has about eight pounds of grain (and a pound of flaked oats). Their instructions call for 5.5 gallons of water in the mash. Clearly that isn't going to work with a five-gallon kettle.
I pose this question to the collective wisdom of the HBT illuminati...
What would the effects be if I used less water to mash? Can you mash and then add water later? Do the initial mash with less water and sparge? Any other workable options? Are you all going to send me on a shopping mission to find a 30-quart turkey fryer tomorrow?
Thanks in advance for helping. Probably should have done this research before hitting the purchase button, but we all know how that goes.
I currently own a 5-gallon kettle that I use on the stovetop, which has always been fine for partial-boil extract kits. The kit I bought has has about eight pounds of grain (and a pound of flaked oats). Their instructions call for 5.5 gallons of water in the mash. Clearly that isn't going to work with a five-gallon kettle.
I pose this question to the collective wisdom of the HBT illuminati...
What would the effects be if I used less water to mash? Can you mash and then add water later? Do the initial mash with less water and sparge? Any other workable options? Are you all going to send me on a shopping mission to find a 30-quart turkey fryer tomorrow?
Thanks in advance for helping. Probably should have done this research before hitting the purchase button, but we all know how that goes.