Mongo64
Well-Known Member
I read the thread about hybrid fly sparge but its still a bit unclear to me. Do you drain the MLT before you sparge?
In fly sparging, you do not want to run the grain bed dry-at least not until the very end if you can calculate your sparge water that well. If you let it run dry, then add water, you are batch sparging. You can add the sparge water via pump, gravity or by hand - it's still a fly, or continuous sparge.
In my mind by draining the grain bed you lower the temp of the grain bed causing you to use hotter water to get a proper sparge. hotter water means more tanin extraction along with the sweet wort. Sugar water being more dense then clear water will stay below a clear water addition. The grain will be kept wet so you get very little trapped sugar in the grain and the grain bed stays at a constant temp. Just my opinion.
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