rtrevino
Well-Known Member
Has anyone compared using a method similar to Blinchmanns auto sparge where a floating silicone tube delivers the sparge water with the traditional rotating sparge arm?
Blinchmann claims the auto sparge helps eliminate Channeling because of the rotating wort flow on top of the grain bed. I'm curious...
This thread is quite old, but I have been using the auto-sparge and run into problems with channeling. I am wondering if anyone else has had similar problem.
The silicone hose has a metal ball on the end. The hose naturally ends up against the sidewall of the mashtun (i'm using 15 gallon boilmaker). It sits there the whole time and I end up with channeling down the side wall. If I manually intervene and move the hose every once in a while, I can prevent this problem, but isn't the whole point of auto-sparge to be auto?
Wondering if anyone else has this problem and more importantly, a solution?
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