I have a new 10 gallon SS Brewtech insulated mash tun (thanks to my wife for christmas) , and since i have some neighbors and in-laws that like my beer I am thinking about expanding my batch size up from my current 5 gallon. Any ideas on what a reasonable upper limit would be for my mash tun? I thought perhaps I could try an 8 gallon recipe and see how it goes. The nice thing about the new mash tun is the design is a zero dead space so maybe that helps by a pint or two...
. I typically fly sparge, sometimes batch, but I feel like I get better results on a slow fly sparge so thats what i plan for.
And also I will of course need to split the batch to two fermentors so I assume having a little extra headspace (4 gallons instead of 5) in the fermentor is not a problem assuming the co2 will push the air out anyway.
Thank you!
Tom