nickrjsmith
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Hi,
I have bought myself a spanky new Grainfather. I have been brewing with a converted coolbox and tea urn for a few years now and decided to go improve things... mainly because the temp control on the cooler was difficult. I started a mash around 70 and ended a 1 1/2 hr mash at 50. Not good.
My love of the cooler was that it was massive... huge.. I could mash and sparge enough grains to fill two boilers at the same time using a partigyle technique.
I am trying to think of ways to get two brews out of a brew day with the Grainfather. I have two ideas that i'd like to get feedback on.
1) Do a 4.5kg mash, sparge this, then pump this into my old tea urn boiler for the boil, letting me mash another 4.5kg then boil that in the Grainfather.
2) Mash about 8kg, sparge that into two separate containers (15l each), top up with water to 27 l then run two boils (add a little sugar to each to raise gravity).
Question. If i do number two, it will save me more time. Will the beer lack body if i have essentially spit a big gravity mash into two and top up with water? Or will the original gravity be enough to keep the beers OK?
thanks for any advice / thoughts.
N
I have bought myself a spanky new Grainfather. I have been brewing with a converted coolbox and tea urn for a few years now and decided to go improve things... mainly because the temp control on the cooler was difficult. I started a mash around 70 and ended a 1 1/2 hr mash at 50. Not good.
My love of the cooler was that it was massive... huge.. I could mash and sparge enough grains to fill two boilers at the same time using a partigyle technique.
I am trying to think of ways to get two brews out of a brew day with the Grainfather. I have two ideas that i'd like to get feedback on.
1) Do a 4.5kg mash, sparge this, then pump this into my old tea urn boiler for the boil, letting me mash another 4.5kg then boil that in the Grainfather.
2) Mash about 8kg, sparge that into two separate containers (15l each), top up with water to 27 l then run two boils (add a little sugar to each to raise gravity).
Question. If i do number two, it will save me more time. Will the beer lack body if i have essentially spit a big gravity mash into two and top up with water? Or will the original gravity be enough to keep the beers OK?
thanks for any advice / thoughts.
N
i will admit i often miss the odd external splash on the outside which gets a clean up the following day or when noticed (usually when warming up for the next use..) 
