Chugger Pump Bleed Valve Question

[RGHops]

I bought a pump to use for things like filling the HLT, recirculating the wort, etc. It dawned on me that once I fill the HLT, I will have a 5 foot hose filled with hot water.

My thought is to add a bleed valve to the pump output. I would have the pump head - output flow valve - tee - bleed valve (right angle part of the tee) - connection fitting on the top of the tee. This way once the HLT is filled, I can shut the control valve and open the bleed valve bleed the water from the hose.

All of the diagrams and pictures I have seen put the bleed valve before the control valve. I guess this is primarily for priming. If I do that though, I would not be able to bleed the water from the line.

Any thoughts or issues with what I plan to do?

 

[Bobby_M]

Why do you feel the need to empty the hose? You will already have a primed pump and emptying the hose will make it harder for the next operation.

Speaking of which, what is the next operation you will use the pump for? If it is pumping wort, just start the flow slowly and discharge the first few ounces of water into a dump bucket and stop everything when wort fills the exit hose.

 

[RGHops]

Using a pump will be new to me; I guess I need to do a few test runs with water to see how it goes.

My thinking was that after pumping sparge water from the brew kettle to the HLT, I need to disconnect the output hose going to the HLT once it is filled. If I had a bleed valve, I could bleed off some of the water in the tubing so that when I disconnected from the HLT hot water doesn't go all over the place. I guess I could just hold the cam lock fitting up in the air and then put it in a bucket to get rid of some of the water.

I don't want to bleed from the input side, just from the output side. My next operation would be pumping from the mash/lauter tun to the brew kettle.