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I built a manifold from copper pipe and fittings that I had around, in my opinion that is not much work considering all of the other cleaning and sanitizing that we spend time doing. I have had no problems with stuck sparge, and I use a lot of wheat, but also hear of lots of people using...

The pump will help you with the recirc. and in my opinion this will help efficiency and with clarity of your wort. I don't have a pump, but will be adding soon for these reasons. I have a 10 gallon igloo cooler from home depot that I got cheap that works great for mashing. It isn't worth the...

You are a long ways away from having to worry about beer sitting on trub, and the slight if any flavors it could produce. After a few brews you won't be so anxious, and will let beer do its thing, you should make sure you keep it on the warm side to promote yeast activity, and chock it up as...

I wouldn't add any water after it has already started fermenting. I think it would just be asking for contamination.

I have my regulator connected to a "T", and go to 1/4" with shutoff valves from there.