Recent content by pdfmorais

I will buy a new burner soon. Until then, I will sparge with cold water cause I've seen It makes little or no diference...

Yes, I heat to boil with the same burner I mash. While I'm mashing (direct fired mash tun) I can't heat the sparge water cause I only have 1 burner.

I dont know the water's chemistry but the tap water here where I live (azores/portugal) is great. Is better then some bottled brands...

I'm not worried about it. The beer is turning out great!

Don't have hot tap water available where I brew. I already thought about that and I'll have it available soon.

That's my opinion too...

Yes... That could be it... But if the drop in eff is not that big i can live with that.

Yes. But in my case, I already sparged with cold water (batch sparge) so it didn't add much time to the process. And it is much easier. Just connect the hose from the tap to the sparge arm and open them valves.

Tried the cold fly sparge and guess what... I had an efficiency increase by 3%! I don't know if thats all related to the fly sparge because I had a problem with my mill and had to adjuste it. The thing is that with that mill and batch sparge (hot or cold), I never passed the 70% efficiency (i...

It's a 32 liter batch... I have a 2 liter jug. That could work. Never thought about it. Lol. But I'm still trying the could fly sparge... I'm on my way to my brew place. I'm going to brew a Belgian Blonde today. I'll post the results later.

Yes... I have a couple of things I want to buy. Just don't have the €€ right now lol

Two vessels, one burner.

As I said before, the tap water is nothing new in my setup so chlorine is something I'm not concerned with... as for the volume, as I understanded fly sparging, I should stop when I reach the desired boil volume. I'm I right?

I don't have an hlt. I usually batch sparge with cold water (with no efficiency issues) that I have to dump in. The only difference is now I want to fly sparge instead of batch sparging (with cold water too) connecting a hose to the tap and use a sparge arm so I don't have to dump the water from...

And how would I measure the water? In a separate container? Since I don't have a pump, I'm just trying to avoid dumping 20 to 25 liter (more than 25 kg) from a height of 6 feet. The problem is not calculating the needed volume. The problem is adding the water to the tun with no pump without...