QuercusMax
Well-Known Member
I've been batch sparging using a 48-quart rectangular cooler with a toilet braid for about a year now. It generally takes about 10-15 minutes to drain my mash tun, and when doing a 5-gallon batch that's not too bad. I'll start heating the first runnings while doing a sparge, vorlauf and lauter for the second batch. If I have the flame most of the way up on my propane burner I can get the first runnings close to boiling by the time the second sparge is done.
Now that I've started doing 10-gallon batches, though, the time is getting pretty tiresome - I can't drain very quickly or else my grain bed compacts down to a brick. It takes about an hour to complete the runoff.
Is this typical? For other batch-spargers, how long does it take you to complete your runoff?
Now that I've started doing 10-gallon batches, though, the time is getting pretty tiresome - I can't drain very quickly or else my grain bed compacts down to a brick. It takes about an hour to complete the runoff.
Is this typical? For other batch-spargers, how long does it take you to complete your runoff?