nostalgia
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So like most of my hobbies, my brewing equipment has quickly blown out of control.
I recently picked up a 15G pot and started doing all-grain recipes. While having the spigot on the pot is an enormous improvement over lifting the 5G of wort and pouring it into a funnel on my fermenter (read: my last brew day), I still have to lift large quantities of liquid around to gravity feed everything.
So after scratching a plan to make a teeter-tottering brew rig to lift various things (but it would have been EPIC) I'm considering picking up a March pump.
I'd like to do a single-tier build, as I already have some heavy-duty racks that would be ideal for it. The thing is, I only have one big kettle. I do have a smaller, 7G kettle.
What I do now is:
Heat strike water in either BK. Mash in.
Heat the sparge water in 15G BK during the mash.
Drain first runnings into 7G BK.
Drain sparge water into MLT.
Put first runnings into 15G BK.
Drain second runnings into 15G BK.
Boil.
So I'm trying to work out how this will go with the pump. The only real question I guess is lautering. I'm using a s/s braid to lauter. Can a pump be used on the output of this, or does it not run fast enough to keep up?
Am I missing some simple thing that would make this all easier?
Thanks,
-Joe
I recently picked up a 15G pot and started doing all-grain recipes. While having the spigot on the pot is an enormous improvement over lifting the 5G of wort and pouring it into a funnel on my fermenter (read: my last brew day), I still have to lift large quantities of liquid around to gravity feed everything.
So after scratching a plan to make a teeter-tottering brew rig to lift various things (but it would have been EPIC) I'm considering picking up a March pump.
I'd like to do a single-tier build, as I already have some heavy-duty racks that would be ideal for it. The thing is, I only have one big kettle. I do have a smaller, 7G kettle.
What I do now is:
Heat strike water in either BK. Mash in.
Heat the sparge water in 15G BK during the mash.
Drain first runnings into 7G BK.
Drain sparge water into MLT.
Put first runnings into 15G BK.
Drain second runnings into 15G BK.
Boil.
So I'm trying to work out how this will go with the pump. The only real question I guess is lautering. I'm using a s/s braid to lauter. Can a pump be used on the output of this, or does it not run fast enough to keep up?
Am I missing some simple thing that would make this all easier?
Thanks,
-Joe