Show Us Your Sparge Arm

[Franko]

Gday Brewers,
just planning what I will use as the sparge arm for my new brewery and keeping with the Bling factor Im thinking of using a shower head as shown below.
Does anyone use something similar and does it work efficiently.

These are 19cm in diameter

Franko

 

[mika]

Where you getting that from Franko ?
I'd thought of using a shower head but hadn't found a suitable one.

 

[Franko]

Where you getting that from Franko ?
I'd thought of using a shower head but hadn't found a suitable one.

Theres quite a few of them available on old Ebay

I think it would work ok


Franko

 

[poppa joe]

Would it be usable without all those ss BLINGYS.?????
Maybe a few holes drilled in side..??????????
I have 4 adjustable shower heads and was looking at
same type of project.....
Cheers
PJ :beerbang:

 

[Gerard_M]

Gday Brewers,
just planning what I will use as the sparge arm for my new brewery and keeping with the Bling factor Im thinking of using a shower head as shown below.
Does anyone use something similar and does it work efficiently.

These are 19cm in diameter

Franko

Franko
I reckon it would work great as long as you regulate the flow. The DME commercial systems use a spray nozzel rather than an arm that moves around. As long as you keep a couple of inches of liqour above the grain bed you should avoid any problems with channeling. The most important thing really is whether or not it is shiny enough to match the rest of your gear.
cheers
Gerard

 

[Stagger]

In my old setup I use a shower head but it was just a normal one, worked a treat.


Stagger

 

[Tony]

Will you be recirculating wort throught it mate...... if might block a bit if you do

looks great though

cheers

 

[Franko]

Tony yes I will be recirculating wort thru it, just hope the false bottom contains the grain.

 

[Pumpy]

Gday Brewers,
just planning what I will use as the sparge arm for my new brewery and keeping with the Bling factor Im thinking of using a shower head as shown below.
Does anyone use something similar and does it work efficiently.

These are 19cm in diameter

Franko

Franko ,I do not use a sparge arm as I batch sparge .

You may have to put some sort of pre filter to avoid grain bits getting stuck

Yes the Bling factor is very high where do the 'blue fluro lights' fit :blink:

Pumpy

 

[Jye]

I originally had a copper ring with 2 mm holes and grain would still get caught when recirculating... plus it was a PITA the clean. Ended up replacing it with this and Ive found it works just as good and doesnt disturb the grain bed. By the sounds of it you are fly sparging but I would still try something simple like mine and it your find it disturbs the grain bed change it. Plus this eliminates HSA (if you believe in it) since it sits just below the water level.

 

[Yob]

Necro..

dunno why this thread doesnt have more in it as Ive found others photo's and ideas on various aspects of brewing and equipment in specialised areas most informative inspirational for developing a set of equipment that suits me... and continue to do so

One of the things that has annoyed me, recently, is a wort return system, manually just sucks arse and since finding pumps my world has opened up, however, Ive found Ive not been following the KISS rule.. and damn but Ive been through some copper and silicone trying to find something that works for me.. lol

So today, after a successful trial of my ghetto HEX I focussed on my sparge arm.. Makr V, the KISS version.. My Over The Side Sealed Unit



It's gunn fit nicely in my Willow esky, the left hand side is just for support and has been plugged off with FG silicone.



Im thinking I might enlarge the 3 holes (which are drilled staggered on it) on the right (inlet side) to help flow but am waiting for the silicone to set and will test it before making alterations to it.



So... Much... Tinkering...

Yob

 

[homebrewkid]

Gday Brewers,
just planning what I will use as the sparge arm for my new brewery and keeping with the Bling factor Im thinking of using a shower head as shown below.
Does anyone use something similar and does it work efficiently.

These are 19cm in diameter

Franko

stuff the bloody sparge arm i want that in my shower


cheers: HBK

 

[Wolfy]

One of the things that has annoyed me, recently, is a wort return system, manually just sucks arse and since finding pumps my world has opened up, however, Ive found Ive not been following the KISS rule.. and damn but Ive been through some copper and silicone trying to find something that works for me.. lol

Floating the silicon wort return hose on the top of the wort adheres to the KISS principle ... but I'm not sure that the setup you have there does.
Floating the silicon hose seems to work well in round mash-tuns but not sure how well it would go in an esky.

 

[bum]

dunno why this thread doesnt have more in it

Because you can't make a sparge arm out of swiss voile or green red buckets.

 

[Fish13]

my sparge arm

 

[Truman42]

I use a length of silicone hose looped into a T piece and with slits cut into it every inch or so.

Haven't tried it yet but I think it will work.

 

[felten]

Is that a good grade shower?

 

[Yob]

I started with one of these but got cencerned with the potential for it blocking...

4 builds and much wasted copper later :lol:

 

[razz]

I use a length of silicone hose looped into a T piece and with slits cut into it every inch or so.

Haven't tried it yet but I think it will work.

Works just fine Truman. I'm using mine right now!

 

[Fish13]

I'm fly sparging atm. Although i am sure i will have to change it.