Comments on: All Grain Beer Brewing With An Infusion Mash Setup http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/ Get weekly articles on home brewing, beer styles, and making beer recipes Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:04:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Why Do I Have This All-Grain Urge? http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-12309 Why Do I Have This All-Grain Urge? Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:29:52 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/#comment-12309 [...] I'm still very new to the whole home brewing process with only 3 batches aged, 1 bottled/aging and 1 in the primary. I dove in head first by starting with all grain mainly because I had an unused Gott cooler and this is typically how I roll:-) Beersmith, this site and other web resources made the processes much simpler than I initially anticipated. The third batch, which was an Amber Ale similar to Fat Tire, turned out very nice. The first batch is a decent IPA that would not win an award, but is very much drinkable. The second, I'll just leave it at drinkable, but that was because of some hop mistake. I'm excited about my 4th batch that is a Stone IPA clone. It actually had a good taste when transferred from the primary to secondary. These instructions are what I followed for my tun. Go for it man! http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/ [...] [...] I'm still very new to the whole home brewing process with only 3 batches aged, 1 bottled/aging and 1 in the primary. I dove in head first by starting with all grain mainly because I had an unused Gott cooler and this is typically how I roll:-) Beersmith, this site and other web resources made the processes much simpler than I initially anticipated. The third batch, which was an Amber Ale similar to Fat Tire, turned out very nice. The first batch is a decent IPA that would not win an award, but is very much drinkable. The second, I'll just leave it at drinkable, but that was because of some hop mistake. I'm excited about my 4th batch that is a Stone IPA clone. It actually had a good taste when transferred from the primary to secondary. These instructions are what I followed for my tun. Go for it man! http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/ [...]

]]> By: Brad Smith http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Brad Smith Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:24:21 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/#comment-294 Rep, In an ideal situation you would fly sparge and keep the grain bed floating a bit with equal amounts of water entering and exiting it. Even in batch sparging you will achieve higher efficiency by adding some water to achieve two equal runnings. See our article on batch sparging: http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/09/how-to-batch-sparge-a-guide-for-batch-sparging-and-no-sparge/ Rep,
In an ideal situation you would fly sparge and keep the grain bed floating a bit with equal amounts of water entering and exiting it. Even in batch sparging you will achieve higher efficiency by adding some water to achieve two equal runnings. See our article on batch sparging:
http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/09/how-to-batch-sparge-a-guide-for-batch-sparging-and-no-sparge/

]]> By: Rep http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Rep Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:41:55 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/#comment-293 You Write, "After 45 minutes, sparge the mash with hot water to extract the sweet wort that will be your beer. Sparging is nothing more than rinsing the mash with hot water to extract the sugars and create wort that you will later ferment to make beer. Heat several gallons of water to 178F and slowly add it to to the top of your mash tun while drawing wort from the bottom of the grain tun using your false bottom and collect it in your boiler. The wort coming from the mash tun will start out cloudy with bits of grain and husks, but will soon run clear. Take the first few quarts of wort from the tun (the first runnings) and add them back to the top of your mash tun." I have been draining the mash tun completely before adding any of my sparge water. Should I simply be adding my first sparge infusion right on top of my mash water after it has sat for an hour at 155F? You Write, “After 45 minutes, sparge the mash with hot water to extract the sweet wort that will be your beer. Sparging is nothing more than rinsing the mash with hot water to extract the sugars and create wort that you will later ferment to make beer.

Heat several gallons of water to 178F and slowly add it to to the top of your mash tun while drawing wort from the bottom of the grain tun using your false bottom and collect it in your boiler. The wort coming from the mash tun will start out cloudy with bits of grain and husks, but will soon run clear. Take the first few quarts of wort from the tun (the first runnings) and add them back to the top of your mash tun.”

I have been draining the mash tun completely before adding any of my sparge water. Should I simply be adding my first sparge infusion right on top of my mash water after it has sat for an hour at 155F?

]]> By: brewpoll.com http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-200 brewpoll.com Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:35:53 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/03/05/all-grain-beer-brewing-with-an-infusion-mash-setup/#comment-200 <strong>All Grain Beer Brewing With An Infusion Mash Setup...</strong> Instructions for all grain beer brewing using a single step infusion mash setup. Infusion mashing with a Gott type cooler, will unleash the full power of all grain brewing while keeping it simple.... All Grain Beer Brewing With An Infusion Mash Setup…

Instructions for all grain beer brewing using a single step infusion mash setup. Infusion mashing with a Gott type cooler, will unleash the full power of all grain brewing while keeping it simple….

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