williamgardner
Active Member
Hello All,
I've been reading all this Batch Sparge, Fly sparge, Hybrid Sparge talk in all kinds of Homebrew Forums...and wow....
I have Batch Sparged (5 Brews) and have had decent success. Like another thread here I want to try Fly Sparging due to curiousity and see how it works. (Plus I just built a nifty Sparge Arm for my Coleman Extreme 70Qt MT)
My problem is also with the Mash Out portion of the Fly Sparging Procedure.
My idea is to Mash In, Mash Out, Vourlauf, then drain the MT slowly into the brew pot. Once there is 2-3" of water over the grain bed, start the fly sparging.
By the time the grain bed has 2-3" of water on top of if, there should be a good established grain bed and the addition of the "fresh" hot sparge water will force the bottom wort out the sparge manifold. Making sure to have equal parts coming out and going in.
Does anyone see any glaring problems with this? I know people will say just Batch sparge and I hear ya! Will prob end up doing that in the future...but we are Homebrewers...its in our DNA to experiment.....
I've been reading all this Batch Sparge, Fly sparge, Hybrid Sparge talk in all kinds of Homebrew Forums...and wow....
I have Batch Sparged (5 Brews) and have had decent success. Like another thread here I want to try Fly Sparging due to curiousity and see how it works. (Plus I just built a nifty Sparge Arm for my Coleman Extreme 70Qt MT)
My problem is also with the Mash Out portion of the Fly Sparging Procedure.
My idea is to Mash In, Mash Out, Vourlauf, then drain the MT slowly into the brew pot. Once there is 2-3" of water over the grain bed, start the fly sparging.
By the time the grain bed has 2-3" of water on top of if, there should be a good established grain bed and the addition of the "fresh" hot sparge water will force the bottom wort out the sparge manifold. Making sure to have equal parts coming out and going in.
Does anyone see any glaring problems with this? I know people will say just Batch sparge and I hear ya! Will prob end up doing that in the future...but we are Homebrewers...its in our DNA to experiment.....