HoppingMad
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Hi guys, this is a question I should know the answer to after all the AGs I've done now, but you're never too old to learn a thing or two.
Talking to a fellow ag'er the other day (who batch sparges like me) about recirculating the water out of your mash tun back over your grain and through again. Turned out he recirc'd quite a bit, and I only did a little. I mash in a keggle with a screen from G&G and he uses pots with a larger screen from G&G as his vessel is wider.
I realised that my setup tends to clarify really quick which is why I don't tend to really recirculate - I tend to only recirc about 4 L through, pouring the water over a rice cooker lid with keeps my grain bed very much intact. His takes some time to clarify, and he uses a shower head sprinkling directly onto the grain.
In terms of recirculating, is taking too little 2L jugs of fluid out from the mash tap and pouring back over the top too little? Should I be draining the equivilent of all water out of the mash and sending it back through?
What are the benefits of recirculating in a big way? Is recirculating purely to clear the wort or are there other benefits to doing this well?
I don't own a pump so am curious as to what benefits those guys get from running the pump through the mash a few times. Have witnessed this happen in the larger breweries too so there must be some reason to do it.
Hopper.
Talking to a fellow ag'er the other day (who batch sparges like me) about recirculating the water out of your mash tun back over your grain and through again. Turned out he recirc'd quite a bit, and I only did a little. I mash in a keggle with a screen from G&G and he uses pots with a larger screen from G&G as his vessel is wider.
I realised that my setup tends to clarify really quick which is why I don't tend to really recirculate - I tend to only recirc about 4 L through, pouring the water over a rice cooker lid with keeps my grain bed very much intact. His takes some time to clarify, and he uses a shower head sprinkling directly onto the grain.
In terms of recirculating, is taking too little 2L jugs of fluid out from the mash tap and pouring back over the top too little? Should I be draining the equivilent of all water out of the mash and sending it back through?
What are the benefits of recirculating in a big way? Is recirculating purely to clear the wort or are there other benefits to doing this well?
I don't own a pump so am curious as to what benefits those guys get from running the pump through the mash a few times. Have witnessed this happen in the larger breweries too so there must be some reason to do it.
Hopper.