re: Homebrewing: Brewing in process thread (with pics)

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Yeah, same setup that you have with the 10-gallon coolers and sparge arm

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I've heard that efficiency is reduced somewhat when batch sparging, as compared to fly sparge. So far, i've done 4 all-grain batches. My first batch was a learning curve, and i believe i got 74% eff. Second batch i made a bad calculation with water amount, again had about 70-74% eff. But my last 2 brews have been more typical of how i expect to be brewing and both have measured at 83/84%. Do you sparge at a slow rate? It typically takes me about 30-45 minutes to gather 6.5 gallons of wort.