guyb
Regular.
I did my first AG on Monday (I took a day off and even got SWMBOâs approval - it was like Christmas day!! 
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Iâve read the Wheeler book, and looked into sparging etc, and it was the only thing that I was a bit nervous about.
Anyhow, I had this idea of creating a âfine sprayâ or perhaps a slow dribble by taking a new washing up bowl, and perforating it with some 1mm holes.
I picked up a washing up bowl from Dunelm for 99p, but anywhere will do â it fits snugly into the mash tun, and as it has sloping sides, I guess it will fit a variety of size cool boxes without impacting on top of the grainbed.
I did one and went a little mad, and reckoned it might be a little too âsieve like and be a bit fastâ, so I bought another and put less holes in it.
I used this second âspargeâ on Monday, as you can see, Iâd put some of the runnings back in, but essentially I could leave the liquor running slowly into the sparge and adjust the outflow from the mash tun (the hop filter has a speedfit stopcock between the 15mm end and the 10mm end :thumb:)
Seemed to work quite well for my set up - as it's in the shed, and there isn't much space, and not having a boiler with a tap, hope reading this was of use for someone.
Here it is in action:
And hereâs the hop filter doubling as the feed from the HLT to the MT (the pushfit is to reduce from 15mm to 10mm - as I wanted to get some suction - my boiler doesn't have a tap):
And a close up:
(That drilling looks like it was done after a few beers! :whistle: )
Note: I will improve the sparge by drilling a few holes towards the edges, so there is an even distribution of dribble, rather than all in the "middle" like it is currently.
).Iâve read the Wheeler book, and looked into sparging etc, and it was the only thing that I was a bit nervous about.
Anyhow, I had this idea of creating a âfine sprayâ or perhaps a slow dribble by taking a new washing up bowl, and perforating it with some 1mm holes.
I picked up a washing up bowl from Dunelm for 99p, but anywhere will do â it fits snugly into the mash tun, and as it has sloping sides, I guess it will fit a variety of size cool boxes without impacting on top of the grainbed.
I did one and went a little mad, and reckoned it might be a little too âsieve like and be a bit fastâ, so I bought another and put less holes in it.
I used this second âspargeâ on Monday, as you can see, Iâd put some of the runnings back in, but essentially I could leave the liquor running slowly into the sparge and adjust the outflow from the mash tun (the hop filter has a speedfit stopcock between the 15mm end and the 10mm end :thumb:)
Seemed to work quite well for my set up - as it's in the shed, and there isn't much space, and not having a boiler with a tap, hope reading this was of use for someone.
Here it is in action:
And hereâs the hop filter doubling as the feed from the HLT to the MT (the pushfit is to reduce from 15mm to 10mm - as I wanted to get some suction - my boiler doesn't have a tap):
And a close up:
(That drilling looks like it was done after a few beers!
:whistle: )Note: I will improve the sparge by drilling a few holes towards the edges, so there is an even distribution of dribble, rather than all in the "middle" like it is currently.
