dsaavedra
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I did a quick search to see if this tip was common knowledge but I didn't find anything so I'm sharing!
Last weekend I was draining my Home Depot Rubbermaid 10 gallon mash tun and thinking how I could maximize efficiency by squeezing out as much of the first runnings as possible yet not have to sit there and wait half an hour for gravity to do it for me.
I thought about how BIABers sometimes squeeze their bag with a pot lid and I thought why not do the same with my mash tun? Turns out the lid from my old 5 gallon economy kettle fits PERFECTLY inside my mash tun, like it was made for it. I lowered it to the grain bed and put all my weight on it and out from the ball valve came at least another quart of sweet first runnings that was hiding out in the grain bed! I did the same thing after I batch sparged to get the last little bit of second runnings out too.
Try it, I'm not sure how much of an efficiency boost you will get but its a quick way to get the last bit of wort out of your mash tun without waiting ages for it to drain via gravity.
Last weekend I was draining my Home Depot Rubbermaid 10 gallon mash tun and thinking how I could maximize efficiency by squeezing out as much of the first runnings as possible yet not have to sit there and wait half an hour for gravity to do it for me.
I thought about how BIABers sometimes squeeze their bag with a pot lid and I thought why not do the same with my mash tun? Turns out the lid from my old 5 gallon economy kettle fits PERFECTLY inside my mash tun, like it was made for it. I lowered it to the grain bed and put all my weight on it and out from the ball valve came at least another quart of sweet first runnings that was hiding out in the grain bed! I did the same thing after I batch sparged to get the last little bit of second runnings out too.
Try it, I'm not sure how much of an efficiency boost you will get but its a quick way to get the last bit of wort out of your mash tun without waiting ages for it to drain via gravity.