Water Displacement?

[poops4president]

I cant seem to find any solid numbers of how much space grain takes up in the MLT.

I am just curious because I would like to know before hand how much room I have to dump water in... anyone got any ideas how much volume the grain actually is?
(sorry thats bad english but I am a product of a bad instant messaging childhood)

the only thing I know for sure is grain absorbs .1 to .2 gallons per pound so roughly 1 gallon of water per 10 lbs.
and that when I partial mashed 4lbs of grain filled my 2gallon cooler almost to the brim so 10 gallons would fill aprox. 5 gallons worth of cooler space...

sound right?

[MrMarbleHead]

Here is a couple of calculators:
http://www.rackers.org/calcs.shtml

The "can I Mash It" Clac is really handy because it takes into account grain absorption rates.

[MrMarbleHead]

looks like 10lbs of grain at 1.5qts per lb would take up 4.55 gallons of space in your cooler.

[poops4president]

so i was about right! yay for publci skool edjamikation!

[DrunkenSatyr]

Beat me to the link...