Yes indeed Ben, I am however working out a process with multiple pumps and valves so that hoses don't have to be moved around. I was throttling the valve at the pump to match the speed of the draining wort.Just saying looks like you could just disconnect it from the pump and dump that hose straight into boil kettle.
Alot quicker I know via the pump...
Ozarks on here I'm sure has Mastered that art.Yes indeed Ben, I am however working out a process with multiple pumps and valves so that hoses don't have to be moved around. I was throttling the valve at the pump to match the speed of the draining wort.
I do try to avoid excessive hot side aeration, but I don't get too obsessed. I have found that a lot of homebrewing lore has come from observing commercial brewing and some things, good or bad, just don't seem to scale down to our level.Thanks for posting the link Wade! That Brulosophy experiment definitely puts HSA in the Myth category (at least at the home brewer level).
It's not a big problem. Either you're splashing unboiled wort, which will soon have the O2 driven off by the boil, or your're splashing boiled wort, which you want to oxygenate anyway. There are those who believe that any O2 at all will DOOM your beer, even to the point of trying to supply yeast with sterols using olive oil instead of O2. I've never tasted their beer so can't make any claim but I've made BOS Helles using simple schlep-and-dump processes. Reasonable precautions against oxidation on the hot side are likely warranted, keeping "reasonable" in mind.I've never heard of this non splashing hot side stuff, here in the UK... I just open my valve,into a bucket (3 feet), then tip into boiler. Plenty of splashing... Not noticed any bad things happening to the beer.
I really don't understand the logic of this set up at all. Once you have gravity on your side, the pump is completely superfluous. You need a pump to lift hot liquor or wort to another vessel on the same level or recirculate. People buy pumps because they don't have multi-level capabilities. Your set-up as pictured makes no sense. You're using a pump in the one place you don't need one and you don't have plumbing set up where you need it most - HLT to MLT/Sparge. A single pump and a 3-way valve covers every operation you need to do with the vessels you have.Yes indeed Ben, I am however working out a process with multiple pumps and valves so that hoses don't have to be moved around. I was throttling the valve at the pump to match the speed of the draining wort.
Either you're splashing unboiled wort, which will soon have the O2 driven off by the boil, or your're splashing boiled wort, which you want to oxygenate anyway.
JAI really don't understand the logic of this set up at all. Once you have gravity on your side, the pump is completely superfluous. You need a pump to lift hot liquor or wort to another vessel on the same level or recirculate. People buy pumps because they don't have multi-level capabilities. Your set-up as pictured makes no sense. You're using a pump in the one place you don't need one and you don't have plumbing set up where you need it most - HLT to MLT/Sparge. A single pump and a 3-way valve covers every operation you need to do with the vessels you have.