I wanted to get some opinions on fly sparge techniques
My equipment: 3 vessel system. electric boil kettle. gravity fed HLT into water cooler Mash tun. Pump fed from mash tun to boil kettle.
My questions: Beersmith usually tells me to fly sparge with around 3 gal after adding 2-3gal of mash out water.
- should I empty ONLY 3 gal from HLT into mash tun and drain or should i keep draining water from the HLT to the mash tun and WHEN I hit my pre-boil volume shut off the pump valve?
- I build my water from RO with salts and lactic acid. if I have 5 gal at 168F of sparge RO water how much lactic acid should I put in?
Any help would be much appreciated.
My equipment: 3 vessel system. electric boil kettle. gravity fed HLT into water cooler Mash tun. Pump fed from mash tun to boil kettle.
My questions: Beersmith usually tells me to fly sparge with around 3 gal after adding 2-3gal of mash out water.
- should I empty ONLY 3 gal from HLT into mash tun and drain or should i keep draining water from the HLT to the mash tun and WHEN I hit my pre-boil volume shut off the pump valve?
- I build my water from RO with salts and lactic acid. if I have 5 gal at 168F of sparge RO water how much lactic acid should I put in?
Any help would be much appreciated.