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got another toy for christmas
the local hardware store had a great sale on turkey fryers... 29.99 for the whole shebang!! Told wife she's buying it for my for christmas and threw it in the cart. Now with 2 burners I can start to think about my tiered system or a direct fired mash tun!!
They have the same deal at Target until Wednesday, $29.99, picked one up myself.
saw that ad this morning, kinda made me want to buy another!! must restrain...
i seen the same thing at lowes and target 
Didnt get one casue its to close to chirstmas but i hinted to my g/f and she will get it for me
When I got my second burner it made the brew day so much easier.
And now I can do double batches in almost the same time it took me to do one batch.
I just do a larger mash, then adjust the flavors of the wort I produce by steeping specialty grains like I would if I were extract brewing.
Last year I made an IPA and robust Porter out of the same 12 gallon mash. Just split it in to and steeped grains in each.
thats an awesome idea!! never would have thought of that... so you just mash all base malt then steep the specialty grains in the base wort in the two respective kettles?
I was blown away by this idea when it first came to me.
I pulled out my porter recipe and my IPA recipe. I took what was common to each and mashed that grain to make a double batch. I collected half the wort I needed in my kettle and the second half a 6 gallon bucket.
I put the specialty grains for the IPA and porter in separate grain bags and steeped them in the two batches of wort.
Actually there was enough residual heat from the mash out that I steeped the porter grain bag right in the bucket with the porter "wort" while I was starting the IPA boil. (I only had one burner at that time).
Now, when I want to do a double brew day I make a big batch of wort and split it into two kettles, steep the needed grains in each and I am off and running with two kettles from one mash run.
As long as the SG of each brew isn't to far apart you can just mash to the bigger OG, then dilute the smaller beer with enough water to get to the appropriate OG (prior to boil off, etc etc). Requires some extra math steps but nothing that you can't handle.
I figured, as an extract brewer the most important thing to making great beer is to get the freshest extract you can. This is sometimes hard to do. But as an all grain brewer you basically are making fully reconsitiuted extract (i.e. wort) and its about as fresh as its ever going to get. There should be no difference between doing steeping the non-mash required grains like when doing extract with grains. Consider my double batch method a sort of full scale "partial" mash techinque.
Maybe I should write this up for BYO magazine???
Really think this would be a great idea for BYO. James Spencer really loves this type of stuff too. You blew some people away here so think of how many others you could touch (completely appropriately) by spreading the word.
I;ll definately be trying this with my first batch after christmas (wife is holding the burner hostage till then,,,) maybe hit up 2 different lagers at once...
I always brew ten gallons at a time anyway so why not make it two different beers? I would definately write in to BYO... it's a great idea and maybe you could score some BYO swag or something... worth a shot.
thats a great plan brewchez wonder why i never thought of that lol
i'll be doin that next brew
tkx
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