Hello Everyone.
This is about that silly spinning whirligig called a fly sparge arm. Since October 2nd, my friend and I have brewed six 10gallon batches of beer. Each time, it's always something with that ridiculous contraption. I'd like to see what others are using aside from the copper piping with slits. Please, post solutions (any vorlauf/sparge combo devices a plus). Thanks, nate
Read on for my rant on why I hate the thing.
The spinning function is pointless. Why have it spin? Spinning evenly disperses water to leave the grain bed unaffected. Well, to get the thing to spin, it needs to be blasting water to a point the renders it ineffective. I often find the grain bed is in something of a cone shape. Also, if the arm ever stops spinning but still has water flow, it destroys the nice flat grain bed.
Tiny holes are also pointless. Tiny holes = pressure needed to create force to spin the thing. Now, I'm sure people doing a RIMS system may have two devices for vourlaufing and sparging, but they pretty much do the same thing. However, those silly little holes get plugged real quick if you think you can use the fly sparge for vorlaufing. How about a design that can do more than one thing?
What happened to the little cap at the end? A short finish here, when the holes are clogged, the little plastic cap will come off and be lost forever in the grain.
All in all. A massive pain dealing with this thing, especially when I'm constantly trying to get a decent efficiency out of our mash. So Again, any better ways to do this? Preferably a vourlaufing/sparge combo.
This is about that silly spinning whirligig called a fly sparge arm. Since October 2nd, my friend and I have brewed six 10gallon batches of beer. Each time, it's always something with that ridiculous contraption. I'd like to see what others are using aside from the copper piping with slits. Please, post solutions (any vorlauf/sparge combo devices a plus). Thanks, nate
Read on for my rant on why I hate the thing.
The spinning function is pointless. Why have it spin? Spinning evenly disperses water to leave the grain bed unaffected. Well, to get the thing to spin, it needs to be blasting water to a point the renders it ineffective. I often find the grain bed is in something of a cone shape. Also, if the arm ever stops spinning but still has water flow, it destroys the nice flat grain bed.
Tiny holes are also pointless. Tiny holes = pressure needed to create force to spin the thing. Now, I'm sure people doing a RIMS system may have two devices for vourlaufing and sparging, but they pretty much do the same thing. However, those silly little holes get plugged real quick if you think you can use the fly sparge for vorlaufing. How about a design that can do more than one thing?
What happened to the little cap at the end? A short finish here, when the holes are clogged, the little plastic cap will come off and be lost forever in the grain.
All in all. A massive pain dealing with this thing, especially when I'm constantly trying to get a decent efficiency out of our mash. So Again, any better ways to do this? Preferably a vourlaufing/sparge combo.