cweston
Well-Known Member
I'm thinking I may be able to assemble a bargain AG system soon. It looks to me like batch sparging makes for a little simpler setup than fly sparging--less need to hold the sparge water at a certain temperature for a long period of time and less need to worry about the pH of the sparge water.
So the basic procedure is to sparge w/ about half the anticipated sparge water, recirculate, run off the entire tun, then repeat w/ the other half of the sparge water, correct?
Other than perhaps a bit less efficiency, are there other significant disadvantages to bacth sparging? Grain is pretty cheap, so I'm thinking a little less efficiency is not a big problem if it keeps things simpler (and cheaper).
So the basic procedure is to sparge w/ about half the anticipated sparge water, recirculate, run off the entire tun, then repeat w/ the other half of the sparge water, correct?
Other than perhaps a bit less efficiency, are there other significant disadvantages to bacth sparging? Grain is pretty cheap, so I'm thinking a little less efficiency is not a big problem if it keeps things simpler (and cheaper).