No this inot the John Palmer book but I reccomend it.<\/p>\n
This is a shortcut method (you will need a personal walkthrough and what better way than by joining Canberra Brewers)<\/p>\n
Yes you can buy an all in one device for mashing and boiling and these vary in price from $500 up but do you want to make that investment?<\/p>\n
A good option is to buy a Digiboil\u00a0https:\/\/mashematics.net\/wp\/shop\/#!\/DigiBoil\/p\/722599662<\/a> and a grain bag\u00a0https:\/\/mashematics.net\/wp\/shop\/#!\/Large-Grain-or-BIAB-bag-suitable-as-giant-boiler-hop-filter\/p\/824767088<\/a> .<\/p>\n You will probably use about 5kg of grain, predominately malted barley and this should be freshly milled, ideally just before you brew or at most the day before, the reasons are complex but a good analogy is do you like your coffee ground just before making or pre ground and kept in an non vacuum packed plastic bag.<\/p>\n Heat about 20 litres of water to 70C in the Digiboil, toss your freshly milled\/cracked grain into yyour grain bag and immerse in the water, you should strap or otherwise the bag so it sits above the bottom, just is enough. Set the temp to your requied mash temp, 66C is a good compromise and from time to time, say every 10 to 15 minutes pour a few litres of the mash liquid out and pour back throught the top.<\/p>\n After 60 minutes all of you should have conversion, that is a sugary liquid, the grain have absorbed 5 litres so yo will have about 15 litres, ther are still sugars in the grain so you will need to sparge, that is wash them out so lift the bag up and run hot water\u00a0 75C slowly through to rinse until you have about 24 litres in the boiler. Discard the grain.<\/p>\n Boil for 60 minutes adding hops as per recipe cool as rapidly as possible, an immersion chiller if fine some people use a hot cube method, I personally do not agree but thats up to you..<\/p>\n Check your specific gravity with a Hydrometer\u00a0https:\/\/mashematics.net\/wp\/shop\/#!\/Hydrometer\/p\/824973519<\/a> and write it down<\/p>\n