ABE 10bbl Advice (cereal cooking, decoction etc).

[mic_mac]

We’re expecting our 10bbl auto-control ABE brewhouse in the next few days.
I approached them with a few questions, including if the 3-vessel set-up (combined MT/LT; BK & WP) was able to do decoction boil/s & cereal mash cooking smaller amounts of corn, rice etc.

But they said they couldn’t help (this isn’t a complaint - they’ve given good service so far).

I think we should be ok to do one decoction, by just mashing in 1/3 of the grain in to start, doing mash temp. steps, then a short boil, before mashing in the remaining 2/3 of the malt.

Cereal cooking might be more tricky, as I think we’ll only be using about 10% corn (c.1bbl mash) in our Pre-Prohibition style pale lager & I’m not sure how that’s going to work.

Any experiences, thoughts, advice?
Cheers
Mike
Nr KCMO.


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[brewmaster 2011]

piping need to be atleast 2" in diameter to move mash and their manufacture might no be able or unwilling to use anything larger then 1.5"

[mic_mac]

Thanks. Interesting stuff - I'm pretty sure *some* of the mash/lauter grain piping at my last place (30bbl Specific Mech) was only 1.5", but I might be wrong.

But given that the combined MT/LT has steam & rakes, I was thinking instead of using that to convert the grain (corn cereal mash, or barley malt decoction etc), not the BK, so the grain wouldn't need to be pumped anywhere. I just don't know if it's going to work!
Cheers
Mike.