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org and make your beer money go further. In order to make beer, one must first make wirt which involves steeping crushed

malted grain in hot water in a process called mashing.

In the time people have been making beer a few aspects of the mashing process

have come to be accepted as sort of rules.

One of which involves time.

You're listening to the Brulosophy podcast.

I'm your host, Marshall Schott.

And in this episode, contributor Brian Hall's

with me to talk about the variable of mash length.

You know, the second thing I think

brewers talk about more than efficiency is how long

their brew day took. Most people seem to talk about, you know, being in the five to six hour

mark using traditional 60 minutes mash and boil with additional time of heating, and cleaning but today I think we should look at modifying that schedule to make it either quicker or kind of break it up.

Yeah, right. Well, you know, there's, there's, we've done a lot of stuff outside of the experiments that

we've done looking into mash length and whatnot and I've I've been reading a lot

online about people who are abbreviating their mashes of course there are those who also do overnight

mashes to kind of break up their brew day to make it feel like it takes less time.

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