Hi,
I'm new to brewing and I hope that someone can help with advice to the following question.
I have a Klarstein 35 litre mash and boil kettle. It have a stainless steel grain basket insert which is the full size of the kettle.
I want to keg 23 litres (40 pints) and I will lose about 2 litres in the fermenter so I need a 25 litre batch post boil. During the boil I lose 6.5 litres. So this means I need 31.5 litres pre boil. But 31.5 litres of water plus the displacement of the grain is too much for the capacity of the kettle.
So my plan is to fill the kettle with 25 litres of water, add the grain into the grain basket and mash this for the appropriate amount of time. At the end of the mash I will lift the grain basket up on to the top of the kettle to drain and then, using water preheated to about 67 degrees centigrade, I will tip it on top of the draining grain ( sort of like a sparge) until I end up with 31.5 litres of wort in the kettle.
Do you think this will work satisfactorily, or am I missing something fundamental here?
I'm new to brewing and I hope that someone can help with advice to the following question.
I have a Klarstein 35 litre mash and boil kettle. It have a stainless steel grain basket insert which is the full size of the kettle.
I want to keg 23 litres (40 pints) and I will lose about 2 litres in the fermenter so I need a 25 litre batch post boil. During the boil I lose 6.5 litres. So this means I need 31.5 litres pre boil. But 31.5 litres of water plus the displacement of the grain is too much for the capacity of the kettle.
So my plan is to fill the kettle with 25 litres of water, add the grain into the grain basket and mash this for the appropriate amount of time. At the end of the mash I will lift the grain basket up on to the top of the kettle to drain and then, using water preheated to about 67 degrees centigrade, I will tip it on top of the draining grain ( sort of like a sparge) until I end up with 31.5 litres of wort in the kettle.
Do you think this will work satisfactorily, or am I missing something fundamental here?