Octavius
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Say you have mashed the grains for an hour and then completely drained the mash tun.
Say, by your calcualtions, you are to use 6 gallons of sparge water to give your desired boil volume.
This could be, for example:
1 sparge of 6 gal
or 2 sparges of 3 gal
or 3 sparges of 2 gal.
I'm thinking 3 sparges would extract the most. Is there any downside (apart from more time involved?)
Also, why not do a 4th sparge and add this to the boil kettle, over the boil hour and cooling down phase, to end up with your desired final volume of cooled wort? (You could taste it beforehand to make sure it was not bitter.)
Cheers!
Say, by your calcualtions, you are to use 6 gallons of sparge water to give your desired boil volume.
This could be, for example:
1 sparge of 6 gal
or 2 sparges of 3 gal
or 3 sparges of 2 gal.
I'm thinking 3 sparges would extract the most. Is there any downside (apart from more time involved?)
Also, why not do a 4th sparge and add this to the boil kettle, over the boil hour and cooling down phase, to end up with your desired final volume of cooled wort? (You could taste it beforehand to make sure it was not bitter.)
Cheers!