Pail Kettle Tipper for batch sparging

[bulbous_blues]

Hi

I was trying to think of a way of making my batch sparging easier, lifting a kettle of hot water is awkward and not to mention dangerous. I was wondering if anyone has used or built anything like this?

https://materialflow.com/p/Pail-Tipper

Or would it be better to invest in a pump? Can you batch sparge with a pump?

 

[bja]

How are you going to get the hot water in to the bucket?

 

[LordUlrich]

I don't quite get what you plan , but yes you can batch sparge with a pump. My pump was the best brew day investment I ever made.

 

[bulbous_blues]

Hi

I was going to make another tipper to tip into that tipper ha nah

I thought of just making a simple tipper that would fit my HLT I was just showing the link as an example, anyhow that may even fit some smaller pots.

They make tipper for larger pots for soap making but they are incredibly expensive

 

[wilserbrewer]

..... lifting a kettle of hot water is awkward and not to mention dangerous.....

Easiest and cheapest simple solution is to move your sparge water a gallon at a time with a one gallon pitcher.



Incredibly simple and cheap, works great and takes only a few seconds / minutes depending on batch size. Even for larger batches, moving 10 gallons is not difficult at all if the pots are adjacent to each other.

 

[govner1]

^^^^This or set up to gravity feed from your HLT into your MLT.
How are you getting your strike water into your tun?


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[bulbous_blues]

Ok well it seems a pump would be a good investment eventually, i could use it to wirlpool aswell.

At the moment i lift the HLT water and all and pour it in lol

Next time i'll just use a jug i guess. Still i do have some scrap metal and wood laying about so building a tipper wouldn't be hard but now i see maybe overkill

 

[LordUlrich]

Even with a tipper you would have to get the pot above the mash tun. Why not just use a ball valve and simplify it.

 

[govner1]

At the very minimum get a ball valve (SS) as LordUlrich suggested & use a one gallon pitcher for your transfers. Otherwise, you're a scalding accident looking for a place to happen!

 

[wilserbrewer]

Even with a tipper you would have to get the pot above the mash tun. Why not just use a ball valve and simplify it.

Yes!
See the discharge height of the references tipper is listed as only 10".
NG

For anything up to say 10 gallon batches, I still feel the gallon pitcher is a viable solution.

Using gravity puts the HLT inconveniently high, and using a pump still involves hooking and unhooking hoses. For what, to move a few gallons of water that takes all of 30 seconds???


Wilserbrewer
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[Peruvian802]

I currently use a pitcher for batch sparging, but would like to find a sub-$50 pump that would work well (solar pump?).