re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread

Yesterday I found out exactly how much my 15 gallon mash tun will hold. 37 lbs of grain with about 10 gallons of water. shite was basically spilling out of the top with the recirculating hose needing to be tucked into the rim.

Buddy and I brewed 10 gallons of a 1105 English Barelywine to eventually put into a 15 gallon LA 1 Whisky barrel. Mashing was a PITA due to LA Homebrew mixing in our Flaked Rye with the other grains that needed to be milled. I am going to have to talk to them about that the next time I go that way. Needless to say, milled flaked rye is a bitch to mash. I have never had that difficult of a mash with my system.

We had planned on adding 2 lbs of sugar and 2 lbs of DME but I was hopeful we could get enough grain in to not use the DME but that didnt happen. Easy brewday after I got the mash working well. Ended up pulling just about 2 gallons off of third runnings to make a small table beer on the stove inside. Everything was fermenting nicely this morning with 3 packs of so4 in one and a yeast cake of OYL Irish Ale yeast in the other.