Timeline for What size mash tun for a half batch (2-3 gallon) brew?
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| Feb 18, 2013 at 19:51 | comment | added | Denny Conn | Cleber, the issue is channeling when you fly sparge, not grain particles. | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 16:50 | comment | added | mdma | I used to do 5 gallon batches in a 15+ gallon chiller. Sure, some flour and maybe the odd husk may make it into the boil, but they quickly fall out, and don't make it into the final beer. Even less so if you use a pump to recirc. I pretty much always batch sparged. | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 16:21 | comment | added | Cleber Goncalves | Won't batch sparge have the same issue with the grain bed tickness? Aren't the problems related to grain particles getting into the boil? | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 15:49 | comment | added | bdowden | I actually brewed outside during a cold CT day, high winds (probably 25*F), and the mash tun only lost 2* during the 60 minute mash. I'll give it a shot and see if the larger air volume will have an effect, like thanby is saying. | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 15:39 | history | answered | Denny Conn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |