Splitting a brewday

[MEB]

I've been thinking about this quite recently. Is there any reason i couldn't mash and sparge one evening. Collect the wort and then boil and cool the next evening? :hmm:

This would mean i could brew more often. Like every night of the week. :party: I'm usually filling dive cylinders for 3-4 hrs of an evening so i can easily manage 4 hrs spent brewing but not much more really. So if i could mash and sparge one evening and then boil and cool the next i'd be a lot more productive. Also i get 24hr's plus lag times with my yeast. This is because i take a pint of wort from the boiler 10 mins into the boil, cool and add to my liquid yeast culture. Which really needs more than a couple of hours to get going. But i could take a pint, nuke it in microwave and add to culture the evening i mash. By the following eve the starter should be raring to go.

I reckon this will work. I'm so convinced that i'm going to start this evening. I'll be making a MK II valentine arm as well. As my brew messiah has pointed out a few things where i can improve mine and get it more like a real one.

 

[Frisp]

MEB
Brewstew is a regular two stage brewer and I did one at the weeknd with no ill effects. I just made sure that my brew was covered overninght. Only downside is that you have to heat your boiler from room temp and not 60C.
Give us a look at your MKII Valentine arm when you have a pic as Im thinking of incorporating one in my brewery room steup

 

[MEB]

Frisp. My V arm will be almost identical, just a few tweaks. Mainly to get it's size matched to my MT as i just threw it together first time round. I'd thoroughly encourage every brewer to give it a go. The extraction you can get is excellent, i reckon it's because the liquor gets a long dwell time with the grains and therefore extracts more sugars for less liquor. Or something like that. The brewer and friend who got me onto this gets efficiency in the high 90's. But he does sparge his hops as well. Once i've got him to tell me how to do that i'll be up there too. I hit 80% easily and ironically, my beer is tasting better for it.

If it's good enough for BS then it's good enough for me. HLT at 50C and climbing. Time to sort out a grain bill. I might have a go at a party thingy and use the first extraction for a strong brew and the rest for an 'ordinary'. Or i might just do a brew i'm confident with and have brewed before. Either way, i'm having fun. :party:

Off to play with Beersmith for a while... I can see another Pale-ish Ale coming on. It is spring here so i'm trying to get my summer beers all sorted out.

 

[BrewStew]

Just to add, i think it was Aleman that told me when this was brought up in another post, that it's a good idea to make sure your mash temp reaches 76'c for the mash out (sparging) process so that the malt liquor has less chance of deteriorating from being left standing overnight.

i've not noticed any ill effects in the 4 times i've done this now though, aside from (as frisp mentions) the longer warm up time to boiling.

 

[mysterio]

Yep, do a mash out and it should be ok.

 

[MEB]

Now you tell me

 

[BrewStew]

i tired to type as fast as i could :lol:

dont worry MEB, my first three split brewdays i didn't know that info either, and they all turned out just as good as normal. i think it's just another precautionary measure type thing