Hi all. Brewing over 3 years now and have a cooler conversion for my mash. I do double batches and fly sparge. Thinking maybe it is time to recirculating my mash. Currently I pump over my strike water with riptide pump and I have a copper 4 pipe manifold I made in the bottom of cooler. As water fills I doughe in. Works fine. I run a temp probe in middle of cooler and moniter the 60 minutes.
Thinking I can put a hole in top of cooler lid and rig a small displacement piece and run mash out of cooler bottom into pump and back in through the new hole in lid in high temp tubing keeping the cooler closed to maintain the 150-155 range aiming for.
Would this be better than what I have been doing with stirring the mash 4 times over a hour and running a vorloff to clear beer and transferring?
Thanks
Thinking I can put a hole in top of cooler lid and rig a small displacement piece and run mash out of cooler bottom into pump and back in through the new hole in lid in high temp tubing keeping the cooler closed to maintain the 150-155 range aiming for.
Would this be better than what I have been doing with stirring the mash 4 times over a hour and running a vorloff to clear beer and transferring?
Thanks