Sorry to hijack your brewday thread GarthGarth wrote:great banter lads, lovin' it,
glad everyone agrees that the 'ole batch sparge is definately a straightforward, reliable and simple way to do the job, oh, and it saves precious time also,
I believe spinny sparging can work well, if not better and return better results but it is not for everyone, and it didn't really ever work for me, kind of hit and miss, some days reasonable/good efficiency, some days absolutely attrocious, so until I come up with a better way of doing it, (maybe that spray nozzle thingy from Beertech?), and upgrading the equipment, I'm sticking with the batchy.
Just saying to the wife, it's changed my brewday, when everything goes right and you get expected efficiency, it puts you on a right high,
even leaving the fermenter tap open during run off/cooling and having to get the mop out didn't spoil my day....
c'mon it wouldn't be a normal brewday without doing that would it?
The organic interface errors(like leaving the tap open), happen, and yet easy to get over.
I enjoy batch sparging like yourself because of the consistency, once you factor in efficiency. In brewing there is such a gulf of variables to your brewday, loosing one of them is a real boon
