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• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-09-2011 at 06:30 PM
  Here:"Most enzymes can be denatured—that is, unfolded and inactivated—by heating or
  chemical denaturants, which disrupt the three-dimensional structure of the protein. Depending
  on the enz...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-09-2011 at 06:19 PM
  Ha ha ha, perhaps everyday I will have large boxes covered with question marks and filled with
  the appropriate ingredients. Or perhaps the secret ingredient will be people. Yes, yes that
  will work nic...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-09-2011 at 06:13 PM
  Real quick, since everyone is checking this post out. If you take a mash to a temp capable of
  denaturing the enzymes, they are no longer able to do any starch conversions, right? If you
  drop back down...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-09-2011 at 05:15 PM
  What, you can't run a HERMS on a tiered sculpture? It was the most appropriate image to fit in
  the small area next to Gollum. I take offense to the Microsoft comment. But, I suppose I'll
  have to deal ...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-09-2011 at 03:07 PM
  While we are all having a good laugh...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-09-2011 at 02:12 PM
  Batch Sparge is an interesting idea, that would certainly cut down on difficulties and
  potentially reveal where the problem lies. As for the hops, I have been adding them when we are
  1hr from done, no...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-09-2011 at 01:55 AM
  I figure it would've been more appropriate to have "I has HERMS?" to stay in line with the cat
  viral thing.If the grain actually turns into dough balls, I don't think it's that bad. I didn't
  notice an...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-08-2011 at 09:00 PM
  Yes quite low. What temp are you using for the HERMS/HEX bath? As long as your 'HEX out' temp
  is within 1-2 degrees of the mash temp, it isn't a huge issue, but I try to keep the bath
  within 7F or so ...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-08-2011 at 08:13 PM
  Right on, I'll give that a try. Does anyone use iodine to check how well the conversion has
  worked?if your gravity is low from your first x minutes of sparging I'm having trouble figuring
  out how it i...

• Posted in thread: Spinning fly sparge is awful! on 12-08-2011 at 07:30 PM
  I would have to have to agree with you that it's overkill. Perhaps the stirring will help my
  situation. Using less water would be great, but if we find our gravity is very low we would
  have to continu...