Recent content by corneyl

I actually didn't think about that, but was planning on using a platechiller/plate heat exchanger. Both sides are used for both wort and water in my design. And cleaning has to be done anyway, which is why I want to have valves to the sewer, so I can create some sort of auto clean program.

Well I thought that it would be easier to control the temperature of the wort. Is that not the case?

Thanks for the answers! I've rethought the system a bit, and came up with a new idea. This one uses just 6 valves, 3 one-way valves, and can do sparging :). The only thing is that the wort shouln't cool down too much in step 6...

In step 6 a very low amount is recirculated, so I think this won't mix the whole thing. But let's say we skip step 6, would the efficiency be higher than no sparge?

Most HERMS systems use a 3-vessel system, but I was wondering whether it's also possible to do it with 2 vessels. I couln't find a lot of info on this. But one needs less valves, just two vessels, but a separate heat exchanger, so it could be more cost effective. A disadvantage is that sparging...