Shame... Giving up on Fly Sparging

[Homercidal]

Just to let you know. I gave Fly sparging one more shot... Disaster... I hate it... Going back to batch Sparging. Its settled.

You are getting the same end result in a different way. Do what you like to do! I think the whole point of the hobby is to have fun making good beer.

I batch sparge. I've batch sparged the entire time I've been brewing. I will probably be giving fly sparging a go when I get my EHERMS system up and running because I think it will be easier and makes more sense at that time. I won't be switching because I think it's a better lautering system. It's because I think the rig would be designed so that fly sparging is easier.

 

[UndeadFred]

I often wonder if all the people complaining about cleaning a BIAB bag out have actually ever tried it. You have to shake it with it inside out, hose it off and shake it again. In really bad cases one more time. It takes one minute maximum.

I started off with a Denny Conn style rectangular cooler (which I still use on occasion) and the single best cleaning and wort improvement I made to it was the decision to add a voile curtain and bungee cords as an external filter. The fact that you never need rice hulls and a stuck sparge doesn't happen with bags or with the cooler it's just a tug... well...

I now went eBIAB single vessel and I sort of fly sparge as I decided to use a Chugger to recirculate the wort during mash, mainly to keep the temperature from stratifying. I still stir several times in the bag and squeeze the bag. For a "new" system, it's absolutely a good idea because you are saving 2/3 the cost of a 3V system. I still occasionally have a ghetto HLT and sparge.. depends on what I'm making.