domgistimo wrote:Hi all for my 80l wash I used 15kg corn fine as I could mill it with my corona mill 4kg wheat malt and 4kg barley malt both cracked I used about 7l back set with about 80 l water boiled it all the way to 200c then put it in my esky only about half of water added corn mixed it in and closed the esky lid about 7 hours later I came back and added water and got temp 70c and then added wheat barley and 4 packs of enzymes and mixed well closed the lid, came back in the morning and had to cool off till 30c I used my copper chiller which just run water from my ibc it took about 3 hours to cool from 55c to 30c then I added whisky yeast 4 packets 72g my sg was 1070 after 24 hrs it stopped fermenting at 1040 and the temp of mash was 42c
maddogpearse wrote:i'd say get it out of the esky!
domgistimo wrote:Sounds like 1 thing to try but is it possible to heat and cool my mash in my esky automatically maybe with a element under a false bottom and some sort of immersion chiller
scythe wrote:Usually in cold warehouses, with immersian chillers and heaters, constantly monitored and automatically adjusted.
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