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Originally Posted by shirtsleeve
Well you have the roasters, grinders, the mash tun and then you spend a bunch of time mashing and sparging. Then you gotta get rid of up to 15# of gooey grain waste for a 5 gallon batch. I buy quality extracts made by a local home brew supplier themselves, use a few # of grains and get very similar results, imo. Going all grain is the only way if you are brewing large batches or a whole bunch of batches though. The cost difference of buying bulk grains in barrels makes up for it pretty quickly.
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Ah, I don't do the grinding myself. I get my malts ground from a homebrew supply store. I find that all of that time for mashing and sparging is also time for good conversation and beer drinking. When I have a brew day, I usually brew two 5-gallon batches. I start the mash for the second beer while the first beer is in the brew kettle.