I don't have a ball valve, nor did we have one on the 30 gallon pot, once we cooled the wort we use autosphins to move our beers. For the 25 gallon we use 30 feet of hose and autosiphoned from the driveway through a basement window and into a conical.
Sure you can....heat the strike water in your brew kettle.....mash in and start heating the full volume of sparge water in your brew kettle....collect your first runnings in a clean bucket and do your sparge ( you can either single or double batch sparge) keep collecting your runnings ( after vorlouf of course) in the clean bucket. once you are done, transfer the wort back into your boil kettle and do your boil. easy as pie.. to be honest I almost prefer this to my keggle and outdoor burner and hot liqour tank.
Sure you can....heat the strike water in your brew kettle.....mash in and start heating the full volume of sparge water in your brew kettle....collect your first runnings in a clean bucket and do your sparge ( you can either single or double batch sparge) keep collecting your runnings ( after vorlouf of course) in the clean bucket. once you are done, transfer the wort back into your boil kettle and do your boil. easy as pie.. to be honest I almost prefer this to my keggle and outdoor burner and hot liqour tank.
I do pretty much what is stated above, too. I only have a 32qt pot, 18qt pot, and a 40qt cooler converted to mashtun. No fancy valves or autosiphons. I pick up and pour everything from one pot to the other, or into the carboy.
The only bad part to this process is the second batch sparge. For some reason, I always forget to buy a heat resistant hose/tube of the right diameter. Given that, for the second sparge addition, I usually end up holding a pot of 5-6 gallons of wort high off the ground so my mashtun (on the countertop) can drain into it without excessive splashing/aeration. Considering draining the mashtun can take several minutes, it's not exactly easy or fun. Is it necessary? Maybe not, but I end up counting it as my workout for the morning.
Sure you can....heat the strike water in your brew kettle.....mash in and start heating the full volume of sparge water in your brew kettle....collect your first runnings in a clean bucket and do your sparge ( you can either single or double batch sparge) keep collecting your runnings ( after vorlouf of course) in the clean bucket. once you are done, transfer the wort back into your boil kettle and do your boil. easy as pie.. to be honest I almost prefer this to my keggle and outdoor burner and hot liqour tank.
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