My brew buddy and I have recently started doing full mash brews, with very rudimentary equipment. By rudimentary, i mean a 17l ss pot for mashing, a decent sized piece of muslim cloth to sparge with and the boil goes back into the 17l pot.
Despite this, we have made 2 really great beers, even if the first one is a bit too hoppy.
However we get this BIG sediment in the fermenter( up to the 2 or 3l mark) which is clearly fine particles of grain from the mash.
Our next step is to acquire some decent sparging equipment so we can eliminate this big sediment.
I have considered a bucket in a bucket system ( the inner bucket drilled with smallish holes in the bottom) with a washing machine pump so that we actually use the grains as a filter.( this should also improve brewhouse effeciency)
Will this work?
Does anybody have some other suggestions??? ( Unfortunately price is a consideration here)
Despite this, we have made 2 really great beers, even if the first one is a bit too hoppy.
However we get this BIG sediment in the fermenter( up to the 2 or 3l mark) which is clearly fine particles of grain from the mash.
Our next step is to acquire some decent sparging equipment so we can eliminate this big sediment.
I have considered a bucket in a bucket system ( the inner bucket drilled with smallish holes in the bottom) with a washing machine pump so that we actually use the grains as a filter.( this should also improve brewhouse effeciency)
Will this work?
Does anybody have some other suggestions??? ( Unfortunately price is a consideration here)
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