Sure, go for that if you want! The only thing else he'd need is an insulated mash tun. I made mine for like $40-50.Nearly all the equipment eh... I guess I could just spend $10 and pick up some other stuff to go with my bag and turkey fryer and I'd have this.
From what I'm reading it's a bit less efficient as far as getting sugars out of the grain, but grain is cheap and you can just use a bit more of it to compensate.
I disagree with all of that. The worst part is going to be temp control during the mash. @Valve1138 mentioned 4F drop. That's huge. There is a really good reason why people use insulated mash tuns or HERMS/RIMS system. So to acquire nearly all the equipment to do AG brewing, but stop just short seems illogical.
Will you still make good beer? Of course. Just like extract can make good beer. But why not try and make the best beer with 1% more effort?
edit: As an example, I get about a 1F drop over a 60 minute mash.
I'm still reading up on this, but it sounds like I've got a choice of buying an insulated cooler for a mash tun, or just using my turkey fryer pot and dropping a temperature probe into it during mash and reheating the mash as necessary to keep it in a given range.
Looks like I should fabricobble together a false bottom for the pot, but that's easy.
The problem with that is that you don't want a 'range'. You want as close to a specific temperature as possible. Even a 2F swing is going to make a change in the body and alcohol content of the beer. Also, you'd be heating from the bottom, so you're going to end up with temperature differences. You could stir, but then you risk oxygenating.I'm still reading up on this, but it sounds like I've got a choice of buying an insulated cooler for a mash tun, or just using my turkey fryer pot and dropping a temperature probe into it during mash and reheating the mash as necessary to keep it in a given range.
Looks like I should fabricobble together a false bottom for the pot, but that's easy.
I'd be willing to bet that you'll get way more than a 4F drop over 60 minutes if you don't insulate. And the only additional space I'm suggesting is for a cooler. It's like 3x3x3. And with that, you'll get ~1F drop. No way you're getting that with a blanket.I said 4 degree drop if you suck at life and don't insulate the pot.
I also said I will be insulating the pot.
@gee do you suck at life?
Edit: not all of us have a beer lanai to put all this stuff on.
I'm fighting for pace for another keezer.
You can be as emo as you want about this, but I'm really trying to help.Oh fuck.
BIAB is a no go then.
You can be as emo as you want about this, but I'm really trying to help.
Just make some god damned beer already!I’m not being emo.
I think this is hilarious.
And I do appreciate you trying to help.
pfft, making beer isn't the point. He just wants to impress his friends.Just make some god damned beer already!
pfft, making beer isn't the point. He just wants to impress his friends.
Just make some god damned beer already!
Don't you have some oblate ellipsoid pizza to photograph?Oh yeah, I'm all about that.
Don't you have some oblate ellipsoid pizza to photograph?