We are batch sparging. Our beer is tasting pretty good and we are always refining our process. PH adjustments in the Grainbill, measureing Mash PH, Stainless fermentor, closed transfer. We have come a LONG way from 5 gallons of extract kit in a 5 gallon pail on the garage floor. I have read...

We generally hit our gravity or thereabouts, but we sparge alot. by the end of sparging, i feel we are really just adding water to the kettle and actually sometimes we do just add water to the kettle, without rinsing the grain bed at all we just put sparge water right into the kettle to reach...

Hello all and thanks for reading. I am trying to determine why my first runnings are always so low and sparge volumes are so high. Forgive me for the Metric Units. Here goes: We are brewing 37.8 Litres @ ~ 4.0% ABV Pre-Boil Vol - 49.3 Litres Total Grain Bill = 8.8 KG's Mash Ratio = 3 litres/KG...