Recent content by gman1

Kanzimonson, Thanks to you and the others for the insight. I am in the Charlotte area as well and wonder if you belong to or know of any good Homebrew Assoc.?

Gila, Thanks. My problem seems to be that when I try to figure the right amts. of mash and sparge water I always seem to come up short. Then I wonder if its better to add more sparge water or keep what I got and add plain water to the boil???

Yes Angler. But say, in your example, you mistakenly figured 6.5 g. for sparge and then seeing that your reaching your 8 g. and still have sparge water remaining you stop the lauter with the extra g. in the grain. Would that be a big problem or not since you were supposedly replacing "the good...

Thanks! I do currently fly sparge and can see the importance when batch sparging.

I am probably missing an important point but, why can't I prepare 6 g. or so of sparge water (skip the arithmatic) and use what I need until I have my pre-boil amt. of wort? Since sparge water is supposed to be replacing the sweet wort does it matter if you just stop the lauter process when you...