I am about to start my fourth All-Grain brew and I have one question for fly sparging.
I have been fly-sparging all of my brews thus far. Till now I never had a way to measure my pre-boil volume. I recently ordered a sight-glass from brewhardware, and now I will be able to measure it.
However, up until now I have been either overshooting or undershooting my volumes, I haven't really been close yet. I'm assuming my issue is coming from either mashing or sparging volumes. I follow my beersmith volumes meticulously.
But my question is, now that I can measure my pre-boil volumes. Can I just follow my typical beersmith mashing volumes, and then just heat up more than the suggested amount of sparge water and just sparge until I get the correct pre-boil volume? Or does when the final sparge water run through the grain, does it collect some residual sugars that would not be collected had I not run the mash tun dry? Will I see some hits as far as efficiency?
My fault I never took good notes for volumes and whatnot.. Now I'm paying the price. Oh well, gotta learn somehow haha.
Thanks!
I have been fly-sparging all of my brews thus far. Till now I never had a way to measure my pre-boil volume. I recently ordered a sight-glass from brewhardware, and now I will be able to measure it.
However, up until now I have been either overshooting or undershooting my volumes, I haven't really been close yet. I'm assuming my issue is coming from either mashing or sparging volumes. I follow my beersmith volumes meticulously.
But my question is, now that I can measure my pre-boil volumes. Can I just follow my typical beersmith mashing volumes, and then just heat up more than the suggested amount of sparge water and just sparge until I get the correct pre-boil volume? Or does when the final sparge water run through the grain, does it collect some residual sugars that would not be collected had I not run the mash tun dry? Will I see some hits as far as efficiency?
My fault I never took good notes for volumes and whatnot.. Now I'm paying the price. Oh well, gotta learn somehow haha.
Thanks!