MTHarrington
Well-Known Member
So, I've been doing all grain 5 and 10 gallon batches now via gravity. I have a square cooler I've been using as a mash tun, and I batch sparge into that cooler too.
I've usually just let gravity take care of the first runnings and subsequent spargings into the boil kettle .
I've been thinking about adding a pump to my process, primarily to ride the wort through a CF chiller and into the ferment or and to move sparge water into the mashtun, but...
have been wondering if I could just as well use the pump to move my initial mash tun drain and subsequent runnings to the boil kettle..
Can I do this? or am I going to screw up the filtering process of the grain bed?
I would think not to run the pump at full blast, but to valve it down a little.
Any thoughts?
I've usually just let gravity take care of the first runnings and subsequent spargings into the boil kettle .
I've been thinking about adding a pump to my process, primarily to ride the wort through a CF chiller and into the ferment or and to move sparge water into the mashtun, but...
have been wondering if I could just as well use the pump to move my initial mash tun drain and subsequent runnings to the boil kettle..
Can I do this? or am I going to screw up the filtering process of the grain bed?
I would think not to run the pump at full blast, but to valve it down a little.
Any thoughts?