Is tilting your MT bad?

[shlap]

I'm using a square cooler w/copper manifold for my MT; the last couple of times I've brewed I've tilted the MT a little to help drain it completely.

Are there side effects to this? Will it extract more tannins or make my beer cloudy?

 

[rod]

i hope not since i do it all the time!

 

[Iordz]

I believe it's called the mash tun dead space. You can either compensate for it, if you use a program like promash just plug the amount you lose in there, or you can tilt the tun. I don't see any problems with tannins arising from it.

 

[BrewBrain]

I'm a tilter. I stick something under the MLT to prop it up a bit prior to draining so the grain bed settles in that position. I use a 50 QT cooler, so I'd lose a ton of wort if I didn't tilt.

 

[tgreene7]

By the time you batch sparge that last but of wort is so diluted, that tilting does'nt matter that much in the big picture.

I still tilt My cooler, just dont think it matters, either way.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

I'm using a round cooler, but I'm a tilter as well.

 

[Orfy]

If your manifold syphons you shouldn't need to tilt.

 

[cheezydemon]

If your manifold syphons you shouldn't need to tilt.

Indeed. Is that guacamole' in the bowl?

 

[Orfy]

that's my mixed chillies, spices dishes for when I'm preping food. I think you can see chillies , garlic and a chunk of ginger.

 

[cheezydemon]

I also love to cook. I am drying a ton of homegrown chiles right now.
Sorry I'm off topic, but I think the question has been answered.

 

[uglygoat]

it's only bad if it tilts too far, and you spill the grains ;O)

 

[Buford]

I have enough dead space that if I don't tilt my batch efficiency suffers. I drain, tilt and let drain, set back up for around 30 seconds, and tilt and let drain again. I keep doing it until barely anything comes out.

 

[shlap]

Let the tilting continue. Thanks for your input everyone.

 

[SAS98M]

Guilty as charged-I also tilt.... gets the goodies out. I've tilted all my batches thus far with no ill effects. "Tilt on brother !!"

 

[FSR402]

I set up my brew tower to be higher in the back but the HLT and lower in the front where the brew pot is. It helps drain everything faster and I don't have to tilt. Not that tilting is a bad thing.