Sparging

[SteveD]

I always get a turbid lauter when using wheat though.

I'd get down the doctor's if I were you!

[nobby]

i'm going to have a go at batch sparging on AG#2, purely because I havent got decent fly-sparging equipment and it sounds a good technique.

If you do batch sparge up your Grain bill by about 7.5%. Most of the recipies are using an 80% efficency. With batch sparging most people get about 70%

[SteveD]

i'm going to have a go at batch sparging on AG#2, purely because I havent got decent fly-sparging equipment and it sounds a good technique.

If you do batch sparge up your Grain bill by about 7.5%. Most of the recipies are using an 80% efficency. With batch sparging most people get about 70%

Only if you're not doing it properly

Unless....you mean 70% brewhouse efficiency, which is possible on an 80% extraction efficiency particularly if you're not sparging your hops, and aren't particular about running every drop out of the boiler. Also a brew will a high weight of hops will hit your brewhouse efficiency unless you sparge them well.

[J_P]

I expect it is down to the design of your mash tun JP

I mash in a plain coolbox, do you reckon the holes in my lauter tun are too big?

[J_P]

they're 2mm the same as the last one which is what I can't understand as the bed of grain is as deep but it's coming out of the tun much cloudier

[J_P]

How many batches have you done using this method, has there been any wheat in the grain bill and have you changed malt?

Same malt and anywhere between 0 and 300g of torrified wheat, it's roughly the same grain bill I normally brew with so I'm at a bit of a loss as to what the crack is

[J_P]

Did this start with the use of torrified yeast?

I've been brewing with torrified wheat in all but three of my brews I can generally get a run off that doesn't resemble soup

[SteveD]

Did this start with the use of torrified yeast?

I've been brewing with torrified wheat in all but three of my brews I can generally get a run off that doesn't resemble soup

Are you re-circulating a jug or two to clear it before running off?