So I want to get started brewing with a mashtun instead of a BIAB technique to achieve higher efficiency. However, I am a little confused on sparging. From what I understand, the sparge is an addition of new clean water to extract out the last bits of sugars from the grain. But then there is info on batch sparging and fly sparging. What is the difference? Isn't fly sparging just where water is dripped in?
I was thinking of making a mashtun like this:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/budget-false-bottom-182580/
So my question is how would my process go?
I would mash at say 150 for an hour, and I would mash 5 gallons. Then I would drain that off and put it into my brew kettle and start heating it. To the grains I would add another gallon (6 gallons boils off to just about 5 gallons for me) and let that sit for about 15 minutes and drain that off into the brew kettle and go from there.
Is that right?
I was thinking of making a mashtun like this:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/budget-false-bottom-182580/
So my question is how would my process go?
I would mash at say 150 for an hour, and I would mash 5 gallons. Then I would drain that off and put it into my brew kettle and start heating it. To the grains I would add another gallon (6 gallons boils off to just about 5 gallons for me) and let that sit for about 15 minutes and drain that off into the brew kettle and go from there.
Is that right?