Yep, dump in the sparge water, stir it up, vorlauf, and run off. Quote from: blatz on December 10, , pm. Life begins at Glad to know I haven't wasted a lot of time over the years! Good to know! I've been doing double-batch sparges and would stir in, let sit for 5 minutes, stir again and then drain.
So, eliminating the 5 minutes and second stir will cut about 15 minutes off the brew day. Mash temperature doesn't just happen.
It's a factor you can control during your brew. It's not as difficult to do as you may think, either. Ready to upgrade from extract brewing to more complex all grain brewing? It takes a little more time, but it's not as difficult as you may think. Why perform a decoction mash when a regular mash works just fine? If enhanced homebrew flavor is important to you, the complex process is worth the effort. Before you switch from extract brewing to all-grain brewing, you need a mash tun. Use your homebrewing DIY spirit to build your own.
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After you have your pitcher full, pour it gently back into your mash tun to settle the grain bed. This part of the process is called Vorlauf, which is simply the German word for recirculation.
Open your mash tun valve again and pour the runnings into your boil kettle. Once drained, close the valve back up and add your batch of sparge water to the mash. Stir the mash again. Repeat the process as desired. Voila , you just brewed using the batch sparge method. As you are now aware, barge sparging requires little equipment, and what you do use is very basic. The fact that you boil separately also means you end up with more distinct beer flavors after only brewing once, with just a tad more effort.
Additionally, the process is relatively simple. Cut off a 6-inch piece of the vinyl tubing and, from the inside of the cooler, insert it into the hole in the minikeg bung. Let a couple inches of tubing protrude from each side of the cooler. Cut the threaded fittings off the water supply line. Pull the tubing out from the braid, leaving you with a hollow length of hose braid. Flatten the last inch or so of one end of the braid.
Fold it over on itself 3 times to seal the end. Squeeze the fold with a pair of pliers to crimp it closed. Slip a hose clamp over the end of the braid, and slip the braid over the end of the vinyl tubing inside the cooler. Insert one end of the valve into the tubing on the outside of the cooler and secure it with a hose clamp.
Slip another hose clamp over the end of the long piece of tubing, connect the tubing to the output side of the valve, and secure with the hose clamp. This is from a 8-gallon 30 L batch of altbier I brewed recently. Remember that the method can be used with any brewing system or equipment.
The things that you need to know to figure your water volumes are: Total grain weight, in this case, By knowing how much water you put in and how much wort you got out, you can easily figure your absorption. Finally, we need to know our pre-boil volume — how much sweet wort you need to start with. For this batch, we want 10 gallons 38 L , which on my system will yield 8 gallons 30 L of post-boil wort.
Mash in with 6 gallons 23 L of water for 1. I use the pitcher to pour water from the 7 gallon 26 L kettle until the kettle is light enough to lift and pour the rest of the water in.
I predict that the grain will absorb 1. After 10 more minutes, I begin to recirculate the mash by draining into the pitcher. I only open the valve partially at first, then as the runoff clears I open it up fully. Keep draining and recirculating until the runnings are clear and free from pieces of grain.
Once the runnings clear, direct the runoff to your kettle, and slowly pour the contents of the pitcher back over the top of your mash.
Completely drain the mash tun as fast as your system will allow. As the first runoff progresses, start heating your batch sparge water. When the first runoff is done, add your second addition of sparge water.
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