All Grain page....

[Beer Snob]

Hey guys and gals... I found this All Grain page and I'm sure some of you have seen it before. I had a couple of questions on it.... here is the page:

http://www3.telus.net/sockmonkeysandbeer/beer/HowIBrew/howIbrew.html

As you see he appears to use two pots, one brewpot he started with and a large canning pot. I actually have a canning pot of this size I never thought that I could do AG by using two pots.....

In the 8th paragraph down he talks about lautering and sparging. He lauters to the first pot and runs out of liquid in the turn, thus starts sparging which ends up on the second pot. How good is this method? These pictures of his kitchen are basically a spitting image of mine. Would this method be batch sparging?

I am guessing that becuase he cools each pot seperatly before siphoning to the carboy he does not get in the problem of aeriation....

So basically I was wondering what your thoughts of this method are? Is this a sound method for someone in a kitchen of this size to do AG?

 

[weberju]

Yes, that is batch sparging, and that guys setup is almost exactly the same as one of my friends, and he makes pretty good beer. Personally I fly sparge, and like that alot, but thats a personal preference.

 

[rod]

i can't find a reasonably priced big pot yet so for my last 2 all grains i used 2-15 litre stainless stock pots and 1-10 litre

it is a pain to stir 3 pots for an hour boil but i like the beer better than extract

 

[Beer Snob]

OH I FORGOT! Did I negleet to mention that my SWMBO is gonig to take a four day vacation to NY to visit family in a few weeks. I actually cant go cause thats the weekend that Thunder and I get certified. 4 days, good inexpensive kits by Austin, no shipping costs after 60 bucks, a way to do AG looking better by the reply and you guys/gals to talk to......any questions....