Raising the mash temperature

[Sandybee]

I am keen to try recreating old style beers as in "Old British Beers" as described in the Durden Park Beer Circle book.

One of the steps after mashing at 66 degrees C is to raise this to 77 degrees C. I know I can keep adding very hot water until that temperature is achieved, but how do I calculate the approximate volume/ temperature required to do this? In my mash tun I should have around 5.8 kg of malted barley and 19 litres of water in my cool box mash tun.

I suspect this is very straightforward but it's beyond me!

[nobby]

10 seconds on Google and found these

http://www.quaff.org/cyberbrau/DecoctionCalculator.htm

http://brewzor.com/decoction-volume-calculator/

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[Manx Guy]

Hi,
A good question and one I found the answer to at this website :
http://kotmf.com/tools/mash.php
Very useful!

Hope this helps


Guy

[Sandybee]

Thanks for that. I should really have found these calculators myself. Sorry I'm so thick!

[Manx Guy]

No worries!

I tired a few before I found one I like (the one I suggested) no harm in asking for a recommendation as there are many of this type of thing out there in cyberworld...

Cheers!

Guy