sterling214
Well-Known Member
Has anyone ever tried to batch sparge with a Zapap set-up? If so tell me how it went, and if there are any problems I should look foreword to.
How much more time? I've always fly sparged so that's all I really know but it doesn't take very long and my efficiency seems OK (and it's consistent which is more important to me).I found it much easier to fly sparge with the Zapap setup even though it obviously takes more time.
I think that's at least one reason I haven't switched...it seems the constraint is always the sparge water and/or getting the wort up to a boil. And since my pot is back on the burner well before I'm finished sparging I guess I didn't think I'd see that much improvement.The length of time for batch sparging is highly dependent on how fast your runoff happens and whether or not you're ready with sparge water up to temperature when it's needed. Depending on the brew session, one or both of those factors can bite you in the A.
I know this an old dead horse for many of you but I've been outta the loop for a long time. How does the zapap fail and which 'modern methods'? I don't really shoot for uber-high efficiency...in fact I used to think uber-high efficiency was bad but that was back when I was 'flying blind' and never knew any pH values. I think it was just to make sure I had a fudge factor in there and never 'over-sparged'. But fly sparging in my zapap only takes a little longer than the 20 min. remilard posted and I usually get ~77% brewhouse (which I know is pretty low compared to some), but that is using whole hops (I'd probably get better brewhouse eff. if I used pellets)....but it fails compared to more modern methods.
Why was that? Just curious. I end up leaving the last bit behind but it is the most diluted part of my wort and it's nowhere near a gallon...more like a quart at most.I quit the Zapap because I was leaving behind about a gallon of my most concentrated wort.
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