Full mash instructions for a novice.

[guest5234]

Can anyone post a link for an easy first full mash with pictures if possible.

[johnmac]

Cover 4kg of malt with 2 gall of water and keep it at 66c for an hour.

Rinse the malt with water at 80c, collecting 5 gall.

Boil with hops for 2 hours.

Cool

Ferment

Keg

Enjoy!

[Reg]

Minimashing is a good way to start.

Look for the One gallon test brew thread, including examples by DaaB and me-good-ole-self.

[flytact]

Here's a good page with pictures that helped me get started.

http://hbd.org/cascade/dennybrew/

This guy is a home brewer that won several awards and has one of his beers brewed by a national craft brewer (Rogue) over here.

cheers,
Dave

[DRB]

As we are on the subject of mashing,does a higher mash temp , 67 mean more body,and a sweeter resulting brew than a lower mash temp,which will give you a dryer brew with less body.

[Andy]

DRB - yes. lower temp == more fermentables == drier beer.

higher temp == less fermentables == beer with more sweetness/body

[eskimobob]

I like flytact's acronym:

I've always used the acronym MALT
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