ESPY
Well-Known Member
I've been doing mini mashes with batch sparging for a while now but have always had to do a partial wort boil. I recently got a kettle big enough to let me do a full wort boil and will soon be brewing an Anchor Steam clone with the following grains:
5lbs 2-row
1 lb crystal 60
2.25 lbs DME
In the past, I would have mashed with 2 gal and sparged with a total of about 3 gal. My wort volume ususally comes out just right for a 5-gal kettle (about 3.5 - 4 gal).
Now that I'll be doing a full wort boil, I'm wondering where to add the additional water: to my sparge or directly to the kettle? So for example, sticking with a 2-gal mash and aiming for 6 gal before boil, if I stick with a 3 gal sparge I'll need to add 2-2.5 gal water to the kettle. Or I could just bump up the sparge volume to 5.5 - 6 gal. Since you don't have to worry about over sparging with batch sparging, I don't see any reason not to add the water to the sparge. It might even increase my efficiency a bit. Anyone know any reason not to increase the sparge volume?
Thanks,
SP
5lbs 2-row
1 lb crystal 60
2.25 lbs DME
In the past, I would have mashed with 2 gal and sparged with a total of about 3 gal. My wort volume ususally comes out just right for a 5-gal kettle (about 3.5 - 4 gal).
Now that I'll be doing a full wort boil, I'm wondering where to add the additional water: to my sparge or directly to the kettle? So for example, sticking with a 2-gal mash and aiming for 6 gal before boil, if I stick with a 3 gal sparge I'll need to add 2-2.5 gal water to the kettle. Or I could just bump up the sparge volume to 5.5 - 6 gal. Since you don't have to worry about over sparging with batch sparging, I don't see any reason not to add the water to the sparge. It might even increase my efficiency a bit. Anyone know any reason not to increase the sparge volume?
Thanks,
SP