Truman42
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Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I did do a search.
I don't do BIAB anymore but am helping a mate start out. One of the things I hated with BIAB was all the lifting and dunking of the bag to sparge.
So I was thinking that one of those watering cans with the showerhead might be useful to do a sort of fly sparge.
So you pull your bag out at mash out and sit it into a bucket with holes drilled in the bottom. Then sit the bucket on top of your kettle, using rods, a stand, mesh screen, whatever works.
Fill up the watering can with water from a kettle, (I suppose you could insulate the can to keep the water hot)
Then slowly pour your sparge water from the watering can onto the grain and let it trickle down through and drip into the kettle. You could keep doing this until you've reached your pre boil volume. Even just let it sit there draining slowly while your boiling
Ive read similar methods on here of sparging while the bag/bucket sits on top of the kettle but just using a jug to pour the water, or gravity fed from another bucket full of water through the grain and into the kettle.
The showerhead wouldn't disturb the grain bed as much so you would get a sort of vorlauf happening and clearer wort I assume?
So has anyone tried this and did it work no problems? Any suggestions, criticisms??
Thanks in advance..
I don't do BIAB anymore but am helping a mate start out. One of the things I hated with BIAB was all the lifting and dunking of the bag to sparge.
So I was thinking that one of those watering cans with the showerhead might be useful to do a sort of fly sparge.
So you pull your bag out at mash out and sit it into a bucket with holes drilled in the bottom. Then sit the bucket on top of your kettle, using rods, a stand, mesh screen, whatever works.
Fill up the watering can with water from a kettle, (I suppose you could insulate the can to keep the water hot)
Then slowly pour your sparge water from the watering can onto the grain and let it trickle down through and drip into the kettle. You could keep doing this until you've reached your pre boil volume. Even just let it sit there draining slowly while your boiling
Ive read similar methods on here of sparging while the bag/bucket sits on top of the kettle but just using a jug to pour the water, or gravity fed from another bucket full of water through the grain and into the kettle.
The showerhead wouldn't disturb the grain bed as much so you would get a sort of vorlauf happening and clearer wort I assume?
So has anyone tried this and did it work no problems? Any suggestions, criticisms??
Thanks in advance..