Ill have to get me one of those sparge rings. Looks the goods Yardy, nice one.
Yard, great to see it's all working well, the large holes in the ring shouldn't cause any probs if you do go to HERMS. Interesting to see some floury muck on top of the grainbed, you will find cutting back on stirring will reduce this, it's the small particles and flour that are stirred into suspension, being lightest the flour settles last. If you can reduce this you might squeeze a few more points out of an already high efficiency :beer:
Cheers,
Screwy
PS: If the entry of a single pipe inlet is a distance above the grainbed a washout will occur, makes no diff and no effect on efficiency.
You've got a damn fine looking ring Yardy
QldKev
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Never say never but right now i couldn't see any reason to build a herms, if consistency doesn't come then i'd consider it i suppose but not atm, i heeded your advice and didn't stir Screwy so the muck might be from the fine crush, like I said, I wanted to test the FB and lautering so I ran it through the mill twice ( 40% wheat no problem ), the only stirring was at dough in and about 20 to 30 seconds whilst underletting the sparge water.
Not too sure how you couldn't have the return a decent distance above the grainbed, it would make double batches a pita if mine were any lower, i agree a single return doesn't effect efficiency as greg will also agree from last weeks 84% but it does effect clarity as todays brew has shown, i know it's the clarity out of the kettle that we're concerned with but today i had both, clarity in and out.
cheers
Dave
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plenty of copper here mate
Never say never but right now i couldn't see any reason to build a herms, if consistency doesn't come then i'd consider it i suppose but not atm, i heeded your advice and didn't stir Screwy so the muck might be from the fine crush, like I said, I wanted to test the FB and lautering so I ran it through the mill twice ( 40% wheat no problem ), the only stirring was at dough in and about 20 to 30 seconds whilst underletting the sparge water.
Not too sure how you couldn't have the return a decent distance above the grainbed, it would make double batches a pita if mine were any lower, i agree a single return doesn't effect efficiency as greg will also agree from last weeks 84% but it does effect clarity as todays brew has shown, i know it's the clarity out of the kettle that we're concerned with but today i had both, clarity in and out.
cheers
Dave
So Yardy are you just using the pump to recirculate the mash, then switching to HLT to bring mash out temp up??
Brad
Yep makes total sense and yet another good idea. I'm tossing up on going hermes or not. Your steup looks like a good inbetween and might head that way once I get the pump. Glad I havent made the rig yet. I would had to of update/rebuild it three times in the last week.Yeah Brad, underlet gravity feed from HLT to MLT, mash out is the same, recirc 10 min at 80ish and pump to kettle, gravity feed batch sparge and another recirc then pump again to kettle and boil, pretty simple, both brews have been in the 80's efficiency, the tun is losing 1 degree over the 60 min mash with just camp mat and 100mph tape as insulation, temperature drop from strike water in HLT to MLT after dough in is 5 degrees, the recirculation temp on the sparge worked out well today going in at 86 degrees and staying a constant 79 for the recirc before kettle transfer.
hope that makes sense
cheers
Dave
Yep makes total sense and yet another good idea. I'm tossing up on going hermes or not. Your steup looks like a good inbetween and might head that way once I get the pump. Glad I havent made the rig yet. I would had to of update/rebuild it three times in the last week.
Brad
Yardy, what did you end up using for your false bottom?
Looking good, by the way, very jealous
Paul
I have a craftbrewer false bottom at the moment, but i am starting to build my herms, and I am thinking of changing my mlt to one similar to yours with the outlet in the bottom instead of the side
Paul
my advice if you do go with the outlet in the base of the tun is to also install a dump valve (see above), even though the swageloks are piss easy to disassemble and the whole show comes apart in minutes I just scoop the bulk of the spent grain into a 20lt bucket and rinse the rest out the valve.
Dave
Rito,
you have it plumbed to a tap in the side and can also draw from the bottom of the tun?
Saw the brass bung too, you come up with some really good shite, for a boily :huh:
your false bottom is fkn amazing, ingenuity, cheap, working. I love it
Paul
i got sick of dragging the rig around the shed so i pulled my finger out, welded some casters on and made a splash guard for the pump out of some old shit i found at work
old shit
welding light guage with rods... fun
a good excuse for a pint
cheers
Dave
Bloody hell yardy! Stockpile all your unwanted "Old Shit" from work for a while & I'll be up there with a trailer ASAP. :lol:
You & the other person do ok don't you?
TP
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