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Hello all. I have 5 partial mash brews under my belt and I want to move on to All grain by doing a Smash brew with Pale Ale Malt and Fuggle hops (may change). I was planning on 10 lbs of grains and 4 ounce of hops. Comments on the recipe are fine, but I really want comments on the process.
I am limited by the volume of my largest boil pot. 4 gallons (safely, really almost 4.5). I will be making a mash tun out of a 7.3 gallon cooler.
The basic question is can I achieve a 5 gallon all grain brew while limited to 4ish gallon boil?
So if I use ~3.3 gallons of water to mash at ~154 degrees (~1.3 qt/lb), that will only leave ~0.7 gallons for mash out and sparge to get to my 4 gallon boiling capacity. And this does not account for evaporation. I know the answer could be that I just have to scale back to a 4 gallon brew.
And my final question is about yeast. I will be washing and reusing WLP060. How do I know how much to add. If I take the old stuff and let the trub settle out and fill a pint mason jar with the good yeast, is that enough?
Thanks
I am limited by the volume of my largest boil pot. 4 gallons (safely, really almost 4.5). I will be making a mash tun out of a 7.3 gallon cooler.
The basic question is can I achieve a 5 gallon all grain brew while limited to 4ish gallon boil?
So if I use ~3.3 gallons of water to mash at ~154 degrees (~1.3 qt/lb), that will only leave ~0.7 gallons for mash out and sparge to get to my 4 gallon boiling capacity. And this does not account for evaporation. I know the answer could be that I just have to scale back to a 4 gallon brew.
And my final question is about yeast. I will be washing and reusing WLP060. How do I know how much to add. If I take the old stuff and let the trub settle out and fill a pint mason jar with the good yeast, is that enough?
Thanks