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couldn't you fly sparge in a rectangular cooler if you built a manifold of some sort to spread the entering water out? It would not rotate like a sparge arm but it should spread the water out.
Bull wrote:
couldn't you fly sparge in a rectangular cooler if you built a manifold of some sort to spread the entering water out? It would not rotate like a sparge arm but it should spread the water out.
Yep, plenty of people built a sparging manifold to add water in a rectangular cooler similar to their collection manifold under the grain bed.
I ran across this on the MrMalty Website......you wouldn't have to build one and you could fly or batch sparge with it depending on your preference......
http://yeastyboyzbrewingsupply.com/
74.95 isn't that expensive.........
Well it's done. A 60 qt igloo on wheels. It wasn't hard to make a manifold in the bottom, the existing spout is at an angle and a bit elevated, so after coming into the cooler I had to elbow down to the base. The spigot also comes with a nut on it. As it goes after taking the nut off I found a handy o-ring to reuse, then just a male on one side and a female on the other of CPVC for a tight fit. There is a barb fitting coming off of the valve to hook hose to. Just a note for those who search out this thread in the future: I ended up re-doing the manifold arms. Initially I had done them with a hack saw blade on a sawzall. That ended up leaving a lot of crud stuck in the pipe. Drilling with a small bit was much cleaner. Anyway, I filled it with hot water and it drained everything but 3 cups left in the bottom. Grand total of $40 ish. No special internet order fittings, just the plumbing isle at Home Depot.
firewater wrote:
Well it's done. A 60 qt igloo on wheels. It wasn't hard to make a manifold in the bottom, the existing spout is at an angle and a bit elevated, so after coming into the cooler I had to elbow down to the base. The spigot also comes with a nut on it. As it goes after taking the nut off I found a handy o-ring to reuse, then just a male on one side and a female on the other of CPVC for a tight fit. There is a barb fitting coming off of the valve to hook hose to. Just a note for those who search out this thread in the future: I ended up re-doing the manifold arms. Initially I had done them with a hack saw blade on a sawzall. That ended up leaving a lot of crud stuck in the pipe. Drilling with a small bit was much cleaner. Anyway, I filled it with hot water and it drained everything but 3 cups left in the bottom. Grand total of $40 ish. No special internet order fittings, just the plumbing isle at Home Depot.
PICTURES!?!?!?!
I need my morning mash tun porn!
Bull wrote:
couldn't you fly sparge in a rectangular cooler if you built a manifold of some sort to spread the entering water out? It would not rotate like a sparge arm but it should spread the water out.
Very easily. Your mash before you have any runoff will be holding quite a bit of water. If you add some water from the top through a sparge arm and let it raise to the level of about 1-2 inches above the grainbed. Then you can fly sparge with no channeling even in a rectangular cooler, keeping the level well above the grainbed.
PICTURES!?!?!?!
I need my morning mash tun porn!
HAHA! Sorry, you had to have a dry day, hopefully these pictures of me 'laying some pipe' will get you through the night...eew HA!
sorry one is a touch blurry
Excellent work.
Beautiful job.
Let us know how well she purrs once you fire it up!
Looks really good.....I'm hoping to get my tun built up soon enough......
I think I finally have all of my parts collected for a tun. Now just need some time.....