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You dont have to brew 23lt batches. As I said before I brew 15lt batches.
Mash in a 15lt plastic bucket, boil in a 20lt stockpot and cool in laundry sink with ice bricks. Cooling only takes 20-30mins.

At what level of water restrictions do you have to stop using the wort chiller?


T.

If you recycle the water and use lots of ice, you can get you coolant water down to about one sink's worth. I'd worry more about wastege from flushing the toilet.

Solution: Don't flush the toilet for the duration of your full mash.

Or use the water from your wort chiller to flush the toilet. Just don't do your brewing in the bathroom in the presence of an unfushed toilet

I just did my first partial. It's a Coopers Sparkling recipe, a bit fiddly because I only have 1 bit pot. Have a look at my brewing notes if you're interested.

Thanks for all the suggestions and stuff, it was quite fun, and I'm looking forward to trying that fresh-mashed taste!

rwh, it may be a bit late now, but there are ways of getting the brew cooler faster without a chiller.

Basically, you can do your boil at a smaller volume with a minimal loss in hop utilisation, so just add a few more pellets. As G&G hops come in 40g and 80g packets, and 40 is a bit under the usual required amount, you won't be wasting anmuch.

After this, you can fill the fermenter up with a more concentrated wort and more cold water.

Finally, take your fermenter outside. put it in the windiest, shadiest place possible, and cover it in a couple of wet towles and let evaporative cooling do the work for you.

This is what I do with my partials, and I reckon the reduced risk created by being able to pitch the yeast earlier is well worth the small tradeoff in efficiency in the boil.

Who needs to chill?

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/i ... thod&st=30

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if your adding 1.5L liquid malt how much grain do you need to get a 5% beer in 20L? cheers you guys may have just talked me into ag brewing

I use the Points method as described by Palmer.

5% would require OG 1045 and FG 1010.
So a 20L would need a total of 236 points. The liquid malt delivers about 120 points. We still need about 116. A kilo of ale malt deilvers about 70 points. About 1.657 Kg. I'd call it 2 kilo to allow for lower efficency, if you OG goes way over just add a little bit more water to the batch.

Cheers,
Greg

gregb wrote:if your OG goes way over just add a little bit more water to the batch.

and add a few more hops, otherwise all your IBUs will be stuffed up.