drstinkypants

Basically a partial mash is using a small amount of grain in the same method as a steep. For the recipe above all I did was put the grains in a grain bag, heat about two gallons of water to 172 degrees and drop the bag in. Mush it around to soak up the water and lid it up, then wrap it up in towels on top of a hot pad. Sticking it in an oven on the lowest heat works too. All you're looking to do is hold in the heat so that the enzymes will stay awake and convert the starch to sugar.

After an hour you just pull the bag out, rinse it with another gallon of hot water into the brew pot (don't squeeze the bag), and continue with the boil as usual. I wait until the last ten minutes to add the extract, as it's a finished product and only needs sanitized. I measure the gravity before the boil too to make sure I don't need to mess with the hop additions.

Really you don't much equipment at all to do a complete all-grain even.

This works great on the cheap. I don't even use the braid in the cooler. I just put my grains in a giant bag. If boil volume is a problem you can also use way more grains to make a concentrated wort and water it down. That's what I do too since grains are relatively cheap.

oh man! I listened to "Hallelujah" just once and had to delete it. I cried for an hour. I thought it would help, but it made it much worse. It digs up your feelings, but it doesn't help you do anything with them. I'll be able to listen to it again someday, but not for awhile. Hang in there. man. We were meant to grieve, we were her friends.