That beats my personal high of 1.116 OG although I was at 1.35 quarts per pound with 40 pounds of grain in the 20 gallon MLT for a 5.5 gallon 1st runnings batch on a partigyle brew day. Got 11 gallons of second runnings beer out of the same batch.
Mashout went great, I did it pretty slow. I batch sparged it though and the grain bed was so thick it took a while to collect enough runnings.
Bitch please. Hit 1.160 and get back to me. J/k. Sparge does move pretty slow once you shoot for over 1.100. Good luck with the fermentation!
Holy doughball batman. Thats the one thing I hate about getting near the max threshold of the tun. I need to get a paint mixer for my next big mash so I can mix it up good. I pour a little, mix.. Pour a little, mix.. Pour some more, mix.. Get pissed at putting a couple pounds at a time, and just pour it all in, and then fight some doughballs for 5 minutes. Eventually they float if you have the mash thin enough though. Biggest I rolled with, was 1.125 out of mine. Was a RIS, and looked like I was changing out cold used oil from the mash tun.
It's usually... I brew, and they drink.. I need to get a brew buddy. My twins aren't old enough to stir my mash tun, hell they can't even crawl yet.
Now you've gone and done it, I just wrote a recipe for a 13.5% Barleywine to max out my MLT at 38# w/ 0.85 qts/#. Super thick overnight mash on the way in early January. Second runnings will be a 90/.
