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Sparging - Fly Sparging vs Batch Sparging
Comparing sparge methods for your home-brew system ....
First let's look at what is sparging?
Sparging is the rinsing of the residual sugars off the grain in the mash tun and into the kettle for boiling the wort. Sparring allow you to achieve a high efficiency at ensures you hit your target gravity in your brew days.
What is Fly Sparging?
The process of using a sparge arm to evenly distribute the sparge water across the top of the grain bed. The challenge is to try and match the flow of the water going into the top of the grain bed as the flow coming off the bottom into the kettle. Fly sparging doesn’t necessarily need to have a spare arm its the flow of the spare water evenly through the grain bed to achieve best extract is the aim regardless of what way the water is distributed
What is Batch Sparging?
The same idea as Fly sparring but you don’t need a sparge arm and you don’t need to monitor the flow rate , you simply add all the sparge water in one batch. Some brewers allow the initial mash to run off completely before adding the batch of sparge water. When added in one batch it is best practise to allow it some time for enzymatic activity before staring the run off again, we would recommend up to 30 minutes. Batch sparging is a faster process that fly sparging and with modern day highly modified grain it is possible to batch sparge and receive good extract. If you want to use the speed of batch sparging to achieve the same extract as fly sparging you can simply add some extra malt , say 10-15% more base malt to achieve a higher gravity and as malt is so cheap its a quick fix to a faster brewday.
How to calculate Sparge Water Volumes?
Everyones system will be slightly different depending on the set up but as a general rule of thumb, you should mash in with 3 times the volumes of water as to the total grain bill weight , absorption rate will be roughly 1 litre per kilo so you need to allow for this. You will then need to allow for the boil off rate, so sparge water volume will be:
Mash In volume (minus) absorption rate = total, then take target preboil volume (minus)boil off rate = sparge volume
Eg. 7kg grain bill for 25 litres into fermenter = (3x7 = 21 - 7 = 14 . Boil off rate at 3.5 litres , so 28.5 - 14 = 14.5 litres sparge volume
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15 фев 2022