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here's what Ive been doing with very good success and don't see any difference with flavor or body.
on my small set up that includes a 10 gallon pot using brew in a bag method.
I will explain in more detail, I have a 5500 watt electric element in my aluminum pot, a pizza screen with 3 inch stainless bolts holding it up from the bottom roughly an inch off the element. The bag lays on the pizza screen.
I mash with a chugger pump recirculating from the bottom ball valve back over the top of the mash at 3/4 valve open. After mash is complete I raise the temperature in the pot to 170 then raise the bag with a winch hooked to the ceiling. I then draining until no liquid comes out, I use my filtered water from the tap to wet the grain pushing it into the grain all around in several spots while up in the air until my water level in my pot reaches 7.5 gallons roughly, that would be my sparge, you know the rest
for a year now I have not seen any change in flavor, off flavors or weak batches, as a matter of fact they seem to be darker in color and have more flavor than before.
anyone else tried this? it seems to make the brew day easier :roll:
on my small set up that includes a 10 gallon pot using brew in a bag method.
I will explain in more detail, I have a 5500 watt electric element in my aluminum pot, a pizza screen with 3 inch stainless bolts holding it up from the bottom roughly an inch off the element. The bag lays on the pizza screen.
I mash with a chugger pump recirculating from the bottom ball valve back over the top of the mash at 3/4 valve open. After mash is complete I raise the temperature in the pot to 170 then raise the bag with a winch hooked to the ceiling. I then draining until no liquid comes out, I use my filtered water from the tap to wet the grain pushing it into the grain all around in several spots while up in the air until my water level in my pot reaches 7.5 gallons roughly, that would be my sparge, you know the rest
for a year now I have not seen any change in flavor, off flavors or weak batches, as a matter of fact they seem to be darker in color and have more flavor than before.
anyone else tried this? it seems to make the brew day easier :roll: