All the parts arrived over the weekend for my new mash tun. My old setup was a five gallon cooler with a half-assed home made false bottom and some plastic fitting. Not at all an ideal setup, but did a decent enough job for partial-mash stuff. Still I had been itching to get back to all grain brewing, but knew I needed a better setup if I was to get decent enough efficiency. Plus with only a five gallon cooler I could really only do about 10 or 11 lbs of grain in a single mash. A lot of my all grain recipes are over that amount, or else right around it so all grain had always been a pain in the past.
With this new setup I should be able to do approximately 24 pounds of grain in a single bash. That means I can pump out some high gravity monsters of five gallon batches. I’ve got all the ingredients lined up today for making an IPA. 14 pounds of grain are all crushed and ready to go in to the mash in just a little bit. This will only be my second brew since Gabriel was born, and my first all grain batch in I can’t remember how long.
Just a Man with a Mash Paddle 