I don't stir when cooling but I do lift the IC and move it around a bit to try to cool the centre and top half of the wort. I could do with a secondary smaller coil in the middle but I seem to get decent enough results with the single coil.escapizm wrote:Looks good, let us know how it tastes/turns out.
I presume you dont stir when cooling? Ive yet to use my IC!
But this was because the run off speed was so much quicker, so I backed it off to about 0.8L a minute again and now can hit 85%. I normally run off pretty quick - getting two batches of 15L in around 5 minutes each - so 3 litres a minute if not more. The tubing I use is 3/8th inch I think so if the syphon effect kicks in it will probably do 6-8 litres a minute. Could this fast run off (even 3 litres a minute) be causing my crap efficiency ? I've always thought you just run off as fast as you can when batch sparging.yashicamat wrote:By the way, noticed in your write up that you mention a false bottom as a way of increasing efficiency. I was using a H&G coolbox and was achieving 83% efficiency regularly. I always fly sparged (although not with any fancy sprinklers, I simply had a pipe from the HLT into the top of the grain bed, sat inside some perforated foil to act as a diffuser so the liquor didn't channel through the grain) and sparged fairly slowly, about 0.8L a minute. Switching to my false bottom, my efficiency plunged to about 65%!