All grain/Sparging Equipment

[Bacchus00]

Hello all,

I am ordering some final pieces of equipment so i can do my first all grain brew day :rockin: I was hoping for some suggestions of stuff I may be leaving out and help me with my sparging dilemma.

I plan on batch sparging to start out, I have most of the essentials such as a 15g kettle (no therm or spigot), a 10g cooler mashtun, a plastic mash paddle, digital thermo, measured plastic pitcher, submersible therm for mash, but I don't have something that I can conveniently heat my sparge water up with. Right now I am thinking about ordering a smaller kettle to do this but I have read a lot of differentiating advice on what size I need. I am not trying to spend a ton on another kettle, just something to heat up sparge water. I planned on getting a 5g but that seems like it might be a little small. I was wondering to get some advice from all of you. Please add anything else I might need for all-grain that was valuable for you to do all grain.

I could always use my 15g to heat sparge water too, but it might not be ideal since it is a lot of kettle to be handling and I would have to collect runnings in a bucket (not anything wrong with that, just inconvenient.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[arbrewing]

I heat my strike and sparge water in a 15 gallon keg.As it heats I use it at the different stages.Mash in then keep heating than sparge.Whats left over helps for the clean up.The deep fryer burners work decent but a burner with two rows work great for me and a tank of propane last longer too.

 

[homebrewmike]

For my 5 gallon set up I go with a 6 gallon igloo cooler/mash tun, 10 gallon brew pot, and my old 7.5 gallon "extract" brew pot (which I use as my hot liquor tank). All have ball valves attached for easy transfer and flow control. Everything else looks good, I just wish I had the space for a 15 gallon set up!

 

[Dustinj]

I have a 70qt mash tun and 15 gal keggle. I use my 5 gal crawfish pot I had laying around for a liquor tank. Heat 5 gals to mash in, fill it back up with how ever much sparge water I need heat while mashing. Works pretty good for my gravity system. I'll go to a 15 gal keg when I get a pump for my HLT.

 

[tsl346]

I use my kettle to heat my sparge water and dump it into a 6 gallon Ale Pale with a spigot on it. It is not ideal to be picking up and pouring the kettle fresh off of the burner with 180 degree water in it but at least this way I can sparge right into the brew kettle. I'm still going back and forth with myself on getting a second SS Kettle so I don't have to do this.