Sparge ring

[breakbeer]

Thanks mate, I ended up calling New Era & ordering one

It's exactly the design I had in my head but thought would be really expensive to have custom made

 

[stilvia]

Beer brewed yesterday and the sparge ring worked really well. Normally I have the silicon hose laying on top of the grain bed. I find even at the slowest recirc speeds, I get a small amount of channeling. I didn't have this at all with the sparge ring.. Photos below during recirc and sparge.

 

[mofox1]

Looks pretty pretty.

Did you manage to get it to work with 1/2" tubing? I changed mine over to 3/8 to fit the sparge ring snuggly.

 

[stilvia]

Yeah I'm using 1/2" tube and attached it with a hose clamp. Seemed to hold up alright. I hooked it up before I brewed to run some TSP trough it and even at full steam held up well.

 

[Meddo]

I knocked up a ghetto interpretation of the ss manifold as a wort recirculation return for my 1V. Silicon hose offcuts with 2mm drilled holes, quick connect fitting with hose barb and three SS tee barbs - total cost maybe ~$18. Seems to be doing the job reasonably well, I'm open to suggestions for improvements though - not sure if maybe enlarging some of the holes to reduce spray distance might be worthwhile?

Sorry about the poor pic and video quality.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbhdfKmm7UM

 

[damoninja]

From memory I was getting about 80% according to Beersmith but now aim for about 72% and still have trouble hitting my numbers regularly. I'd made a few changes to the setup and not overly concerned but would still like to get to the bottom of it.

I comfortably manage this range batch sparge recirc each batch run for 10 minutes

 

[breakbeer]

Awesome work meddo!

I love how people on here just go "**** that, I'm gonna make me own" & come up with some ingenious ****