sicktght311
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Looking for some feedback from you Fly Spargers
When you fly sparge, assuming you mashed with a predetermined amount of strike water based on your usual mash thickness, which of the following do you do
1) Calculate your total Mash volume + Sparge Volume ahead of time, start your sparge at your typical slow sparge speed, and just keep the water flowing over the grain bed until you hit that sparge volume, stop your sparge, and drain your mash tun until you hit your target boil volume
or
2) Calculate your Mash volume, proceed with your mash as usual, and then sparge not paying attention to how much water you've sparged with, but instead just making sure to keep the sparge water flowing slowly at the same speed as the boil kettle runoff until you hit your target boil volume.
Typically i do number 1, but i'm wondering if you gain more efficiency by continuously running clean water over the grains, or if the sparge volume you precalculated is enough to fully properly extract, and once you hit that volume you just need to get that liquid out of the mash tun and into the boil kettle
When you fly sparge, assuming you mashed with a predetermined amount of strike water based on your usual mash thickness, which of the following do you do
1) Calculate your total Mash volume + Sparge Volume ahead of time, start your sparge at your typical slow sparge speed, and just keep the water flowing over the grain bed until you hit that sparge volume, stop your sparge, and drain your mash tun until you hit your target boil volume
or
2) Calculate your Mash volume, proceed with your mash as usual, and then sparge not paying attention to how much water you've sparged with, but instead just making sure to keep the sparge water flowing slowly at the same speed as the boil kettle runoff until you hit your target boil volume.
Typically i do number 1, but i'm wondering if you gain more efficiency by continuously running clean water over the grains, or if the sparge volume you precalculated is enough to fully properly extract, and once you hit that volume you just need to get that liquid out of the mash tun and into the boil kettle