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march pump problems
When I batch sparge I pump water from my HLT into my MLT after my first runnings have been drained. Usually all that does is lift the grain bed above the water so I stir it up good and wait 10 minutes before draining into my kettle. I acutally split my sparge water and do a double batch sparge.
Double batch sparge? meaning that you do it twice with half as much water?
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I changed the orientation of the pump head to up and down. It worked much better this time. Hit my gravity right on the nose really excited with how well this brew session went. Still a little bit of the surging thing going on but it is much more manageable. thanks for all the help
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Irondavy wrote:
Double batch sparge? meaning that you do it twice with half as much water?
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Yep, I remember reading that a double batch sparge yields a greater efficiency as ,opposed to sparging with all of your water at once, when I was gearing up to go all grain. Since then its just the way I've done it. I should probably do some experimenting but its one those " if its not broken.." kind of deals. And it only takes 10 minutes.
Glad to hear you solved your pump troubles.
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So to be sure I understand your double batch sparge method, you are running off three times then?
First runnings, add some sparge water, second runnings, add the rest of the sparge water, third runnings.
Do I understand you correctly good sir?
Yep, 3 runnings, just as you described.
I've been double sparging since I got my pump as well. I usually do it to make sure I have enough in the kettle, but if the numbers are off, I will run more through until i get what I want, or until I hit the high mark in my kettle..
Although, last brew on Saturday only got one sparge. I dumped 3.5 gallons in, let it sit, vorloffed, and drained. Then filled it again with another 3 gallons, and drained again. Hit my numbers pretty good, actually got .005 higher than planned, 1.058 instead of 1.053...
I used to bug brewchez about water quantity all the time when I started all grain brewing. The truth is, you really don't know until you bang out a few batches with your system. Plus the refractometer really really really makes things easy. I pretty much just keep sparging until I have 13 or 14 gallons of Wort, take the preboil reading, and about 99% of the time it's dead on.I know that I lose about 3 gallons during a 90 min boil, and I boil to my gravity.
Bottom line heat it up, and dump it in, batch sparging rules, lol.
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