Scottish Ale Recipe

[Happy Smurf]

I think I'm going to try Jamil's Scottish Ale (80/-) recipe for my first partial mash. This is what I came up with for a recipe. I did my own conversion from all-grain to partial and I have a quick question. I built a mash tun for my eventual move to AG. It's a 52 qt. rectangular cooler with a copper manifold for lautering.

Is this MT too big for my partial mash grain bill? Is this enough two row for adequate conversion? Should I lauter and sparge, since I have the capability?

Thanks in advance!

Grain bill:
3.00 lb Pale Malt, 2 Row (58%)
1.00 lb Crystal Malt - 40L (19%)
0.50 lb Crystal Malt - 120L (10%)
0.30 lb Honey Malt (6%)
0.30 lb Munich Malt - 10L (6%)
0.10 lb Chocolate Malt (2%)
TOTAL 5.2 lb

[Surgeon General]

I can't give you much advice re: the Mash tun, as I'm in the same spot you are- just built mine, have yet to use it, but I don't think you'd run into any problems using 5# in it. Just pre heat the thing with hot water first, so it holds that small thermal mass at temp a little better. Maybe someone else can help out here, but also, I'm not sure what you're asking about sparging? Why wouldn't you, if you could?

Re: your recipe.. You don't need the diastatic power of the 2 row here for anything really. The Munich & Honey are both self converting, and the crystal you don't *need* to mash, so you're fine there. I just re listened to Jamil's Scottish episode, and here is the recipe he gives for 6g of 80 Schilling-

.5 lb Munich
.5 lb Honey Malt
.5 lb C40
.5 lb C120
.125 lb Pale Chocolate
Enough two row/extract to get to ~1.054

Your recipe isn't that far off, so you should be fine, but if you want a copy of his, only PM, I'd just punch in the numbers above exactly and add your 3# of 2 row.

As an aside, why not just do this batch as an AG since you have the MT built? Is the boil stopping you?

[Surgeon General]

So how's it going up in the land of the midnight sun? Ever brew that Scottish?