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Necropaw
Charter Member
Central WI
608 Posts


Ah right, i forgot you did 10 gal batches.

I guess i also dont usually brew IPAs. More of a session ale guy.




Posted 34 days ago.

testingapril
Charter Member
Atlanta, GA
595 Posts


I mainly brew session IPA when I brew IPA. Which is quite a bit.




Posted 34 days ago.

rayfound
Charter Member
Riverside, CA
313 Posts


Derek, I fail to understand how an add'l kettle would save you time?

My system is one Burner, One Kettle, One MLT, and the kettle is never a hold-up. (well, my system is actually NOW 2 Kettles/burners/mlts... but that is for parallel batching)

  1. Heat strike water
  2. Add strike water to mash tun
  3. Mash
  4. During mash, heat sparge water
  5. Lauter into bucket(s)
  6. Add Sparge water to MLT
  7. Dump first runnings into Kettle+restart flame
  8. Lauter into bucket(s)
  9. Dump second runnings into kettle.

Aside from the initial heating of the Sparge water, I am never waiting for a kettle.





Posted 34 days ago.

rayfound
Charter Member
Riverside, CA
313 Posts


I have brewed 70 gallons of IPA to date this year. Wow.




Posted 34 days ago.

Necropaw
Charter Member
Central WI
608 Posts


Yeah, kinda with Ray here. I drain my mash tun right into my boil kettle, but have a second kettle (old shitty turkey fryer aluminum one) that i use for my sparge water, so i heat it up in there, set it aside when i start draining the tun (into my kettle, which is on my burner at that point so i can start heating) and everything goes pretty smoothly.




Posted 34 days ago.

Necropaw
Charter Member
Central WI
608 Posts


Jeez, Ray.




Posted 34 days ago.

KidMoxie
Charter Member
San Elijo Hills, CA
405 Posts


Ray, I mash in my kettle and direct fire different rests. That's why I can't heat sparge water in parallel.




Posted 34 days ago.

testingapril
Charter Member
Atlanta, GA
595 Posts


Solution: buy an MT and stop doing step mashes

Problem solved.




Posted 34 days ago.

KidMoxie
Charter Member
San Elijo Hills, CA
405 Posts


I have a MLT, I just use it to lauter these days--I prefer having finer control over my rests vs time savings. I don't especially feel like there's anything wrong with my setup, that's why I say it's hard for me to justify adding more gear to save a little time.




Posted 34 days ago.

testingapril
Charter Member
Atlanta, GA
595 Posts


How do you transfer the mash to the MLT?

That sounds really convoluted.

Based on your beer, it definitely works for you, but it sounds like a difficult brew day.




Posted 34 days ago.

KidMoxie
Charter Member
San Elijo Hills, CA
405 Posts


I just scoop it out with a large bowl then dump the last bit directly from the kettle.I do my mash-out rest (post-heating) in the cooler while I clean the kettle and refill it with water for sparging.Remember I'm only doing 5.5 gallon batches, itonly takes like 1 minute to transfer.




Posted 34 days ago.

KidMoxie
Charter Member
San Elijo Hills, CA
405 Posts


Actually, since I got a brew-bag I'd really only save ~30 minutes if I got a new liquor kettle. My sparge takes ~1/3 the time now that I just open my valve all the way and don't have to worry about compaction or poor filtering.




Posted 34 days ago.

vinpaysdoc
Charter Member
High Point, NC
321 Posts


|Olan needs to learn how to drink like a Wisconsinite. Then he'd be in a hurry to start kegging.


Nope. If he drank like a Wisconsonite his IPA would never get the chance to lose their hop freshness even when bottle conditioned....




Posted 34 days ago.

testingapril
Charter Member
Atlanta, GA
595 Posts


I...uh...want a brew bag. I compacted my grain bed on both of my last two brews. Never done that before, but it's happening now for some reason. Maybe I'm not letting the grain bed settle enough, I don't know.

I'm going to try using my HopRocket as a grant and see if that fixes things before buying a brew bag.




Posted 34 days ago.

Necropaw
Charter Member
Central WI
608 Posts


Im so excited to get my brew bag! It actually shipped this morning.

And he'd still want to start kegging then, because bottling that much sucks :P




Posted 34 days ago.

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