Overnight mashing

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Re: Overnight mashing

Post by guypettigrew » Sun May 23, 2021 1:37 pm

trucker5774 wrote:
Sun May 23, 2021 10:02 am
Both my mash and boil are 60 mins. I only heat enough water I the HLT for the stage I'm at, then heat again whilst mashing. Sparging is around 30 mins. I start the boil before the full 30 litres is collected. Cooling coil is quite efficient at around 20 mins. I leave it in until after draining. I clean as I go. 4 hours would be a quick day, but 5 hours is quite leisurely. I can, of course, have longer settling and slower draining methods, but having done it different way for about 35 year, I have become lazy/more efficient! If I thought results were suffering, I would be more picky, but it's a simple system and works for me.
Makes sense. If I cut the mash and boil down by 30 minutes each, and reduced the sparge time to 30 minutes, that's an hour and a half saved already. Then, if I didn't add any hops at flame out another 30 minutes saved. Would take my total time down to 5 hours.

Thanks for the explanation.

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Re: Overnight mashing

Post by MashBag » Wed May 26, 2021 8:05 am

Absolutely.

My mash is 60 mins.
But I have successfully reduced boil to 45 mins with no hops until -30.

But this is depend on your hopping schedule (but I changed to late wort hopping to get a better finish)

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