I posted this on reddit/homebrewing but wanted to do a gut check.
If you have the MLT and BK on one tier with a hose from the diptube>valve of the mlt to the valve>diptube of the BK (basically just a hose connecting them near the base), during first runnings/sparge can you just keep the water level of the MLT above the wort level in the BK to keep the flow going from the MLT to the BK, since water will always want to evenly distribute between two vessels of the same size, so the water level always being higher in the MLT will push into the BK?
Am I missing something obvious? I did it last brew day (although I had a pump between the mlt and bk just in case). It seemed to work, but we had lower efficiency than usual, albeit it was a big stout recipe. The benefits were that we could use gravity, 1 less pump in the process, and not need a 2-tiered system. Never seen anyone mention a method like this which made me think it may have been the culprit. Could the good first runnings wort make it backwards from the BK back into the MLT somehow and ruin efficiency?
If you have the MLT and BK on one tier with a hose from the diptube>valve of the mlt to the valve>diptube of the BK (basically just a hose connecting them near the base), during first runnings/sparge can you just keep the water level of the MLT above the wort level in the BK to keep the flow going from the MLT to the BK, since water will always want to evenly distribute between two vessels of the same size, so the water level always being higher in the MLT will push into the BK?
Am I missing something obvious? I did it last brew day (although I had a pump between the mlt and bk just in case). It seemed to work, but we had lower efficiency than usual, albeit it was a big stout recipe. The benefits were that we could use gravity, 1 less pump in the process, and not need a 2-tiered system. Never seen anyone mention a method like this which made me think it may have been the culprit. Could the good first runnings wort make it backwards from the BK back into the MLT somehow and ruin efficiency?
