Comments on: Batch Sparging Tips

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:59:28 +0000

I used the numbers that you gave and it seemed to work out right for me too.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:27:17 +0000

I filter my wort through a paint strainer bag as I transfer it to my fermenter. This has proven to work really well at filtering out stuff I don’t want in my fermenter. Plus I don’t have to leave any extra wort in the kettle.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:18:45 +0000

For most ales and short fermentation periods (where the beer is racked off the trub and cake in a couple weeks) I don’t think it matters all that much. I do try to reduce the carry over form kettle to fermentor. Most of my recipes are planned to end at 6-6.5 gallons volume and I leave a gallon behind in the kettle.
But for Johns first session we tried to simply maximize his return due to the diffilculty we had with the sparge. Ultimately we left about half a gallon of hop debris in the kettle.
Normally though I prefer to get some seperation of kettle break and hops from wort into the fermentor.
Cheers, BREW ON!
M

By: hopshead

hopshead — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:12:44 +0000

You explained that you planned on 6.5 gallons pre-boil volume and that you would evaporate approximately 1 gallon of wort during the boil leaving 5.5 gallons “in the fermenter.” My question is are you transferring all the contents of the kettle to fermenter (i.e. hot break, cold break, and hops)? If so, how do you think this impacts the beer, better, worse, or neutral. I use a batch sparge in my all grain brewing and I have adapted my process to have about 9.5 gallons pre-boil, boil for 90 min. with an evaporation rate of 1.85 gallons an hour (I know that is bit high), leaving 6.5 gallons at knock out. Then I plan to transfer 5.5 gallons to the fermenter with 1 gallon of waste (hops and break). Let me know what you think.