Mongo64
Well-Known Member
I usually use cold tap water in my electric HLT for brewing but it is taking close to 2 hours to heat up 10 gal. for my sparge water. Any reason I couldn't just start with hot tap water and heat that to 175? I'm guessing hot tap water may have a bit of Mg from the anode but that might be better for yeasties anyway. I'd like to get the sparge heating time (which is my mash time) down to around 60 min.