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re: General home brewing thread: Ask questions and get answers..
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:03 am to BottomlandBrew
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:03 am to BottomlandBrew
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I use a steel hose, so no worries on it like you were having with your false bottom.
That's what denny conn uses. Sounded real good after opening that valve and nothing happening last night.. lol but I got it going fairly easily.
So, could a low sparge temp equal low efficiency? What temp do you sparge with?
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Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:11 am to s14suspense
Did you have a lot of water still left in the mash tun after you got to your final boil volume?
The lower sparge water temp would certainly have a little impact on your efficiency but probably not an incredible amount. However ideally you want that water around 170-175 hitting the grains. And when you are batch sparging you may want to have it a little hotter, so that it brings the grain temp up to 168 to mash out at the same time.
The lower sparge water temp would certainly have a little impact on your efficiency but probably not an incredible amount. However ideally you want that water around 170-175 hitting the grains. And when you are batch sparging you may want to have it a little hotter, so that it brings the grain temp up to 168 to mash out at the same time.
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:27 am to s14suspense
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So, could a low sparge temp equal low efficiency? What temp do you sparge with?
Possibly. What has helped my efficiency out is splitting my batch sparge up in to two sparges. I use a lot of pils in my recipes and go with 90 minute boils, so I usually have large sparge volume that can easily be split. I will heat the sparge water up to around 180 and then sparge right at 169-170.
I've read on HBT of some people doing cooler sparges and having no noticeable efficiency problems, but I've never done it.
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