Justintoxicated
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Or maybe I'm doing something wrong. In all grain brewing is the sparge supposed to be more water than the mash? For example, both beersmith and my recipe kit both told me I needed about 3 gallons to mash and 5 gallons to sparge. I ended up boiling off more water but the beer came out spot on the desired gravity in the end.
Anyways I was trying / learning to flysparge, and I realized I had no container to mash out into since I had to use my brew kettle to heat the 5 gallons of sparge water. I ended up using a 5 gallon carboy for this and a siphon hose to get the wort back into the kettle once I finished sparging.
So what do I buy next? A new larger brew kettle so i can use my 36qt bayou classic for my HLT? Maybe one with a value? Or maybe a 2 tier system? Something else?
I'd love to get me some gravity feed automatic sparging going on, even though this is only my second time doing it. Maybe I should get something that could later be used for this purpose, since that is probably ideal at this point, but what?
I need to make myself a sparge arm or maybe just get a collinder or something? I used a flower pot watering thing, but I don't think it was food grade plastic so probably not something I will want to repeat?
Anyways I was trying / learning to flysparge, and I realized I had no container to mash out into since I had to use my brew kettle to heat the 5 gallons of sparge water. I ended up using a 5 gallon carboy for this and a siphon hose to get the wort back into the kettle once I finished sparging.
So what do I buy next? A new larger brew kettle so i can use my 36qt bayou classic for my HLT? Maybe one with a value? Or maybe a 2 tier system? Something else?
I'd love to get me some gravity feed automatic sparging going on, even though this is only my second time doing it. Maybe I should get something that could later be used for this purpose, since that is probably ideal at this point, but what?
I need to make myself a sparge arm or maybe just get a collinder or something? I used a flower pot watering thing, but I don't think it was food grade plastic so probably not something I will want to repeat?