withanx
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I've been doing mostly BIAB and batch sparging, but I've been thinking about getting started in fly sparging. I have a 3 vessel gravity system available to do it.
When I load my beer into beersmith and select a fly sparging method on beers with larger grain bills (16lb for 5 gal batch), it tells me to "fly sparge with 1.06 gallons of water"
How do I extract 8 galons of water from the mash ton with 1 gallon of sparge water?
From what I've heard, you just continue running water through until you hit your boil volume. Does that mean I'd actually need 8 gallons in the HLT making my total water need 16+ gallons? I brew with jugs of distilled water, so that could get really expensive (I don't have good brewing water on tap at my house, it's high in salinity).
When I load my beer into beersmith and select a fly sparging method on beers with larger grain bills (16lb for 5 gal batch), it tells me to "fly sparge with 1.06 gallons of water"
How do I extract 8 galons of water from the mash ton with 1 gallon of sparge water?
From what I've heard, you just continue running water through until you hit your boil volume. Does that mean I'd actually need 8 gallons in the HLT making my total water need 16+ gallons? I brew with jugs of distilled water, so that could get really expensive (I don't have good brewing water on tap at my house, it's high in salinity).