![]() ![]() I met up with Doug, one of the brewers at their Home Brew Mart location to brew 15 barrels of a 30 barrel batch. On August 19, 2012, I was invited to brew my winning home brew recipe “Time to Panic” with Ballast Point which was part of the home brew competition they hosted along with the San Diego Padres. Thus, maintaining a one inch water line above the grain – keeping it undisturbed.īrew Day with Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits The great thing about using a float switch is that as the mash tun drains, the pump will automatically kick on and add more sparge water. For each brewing session, I target the sparge to take a total of 60 minutes, which equates to about 0.5 – 1.0 quart per minute. For this particular brew, I planned to boil for 90 minutes, so I collected about 9.37 gallons of wort. This leaves about 1 inch of water on top of the grain bed and the sparge ring submersed.įrom here, I opened the drain valve on the mash tun and began to gravity feed the wort into the boil kettle. I switched the control box to begin sparging the pump kicked on and began filling the mash tun with 170F water until the level reached the float switch. Throughout the mash schedule, I had the sparge ring sitting about ¼ inch above the grain bed and the float switch positioned about one inch above the ring. When I got home that day, I modified my sparge set-up to match their specs and was ready to brew the following morning. ![]() So, on my last visit to my LHBS Smokin Beaver, the guys showed me how they set up their More Beer flat sculpture and float switch. When I finally got that nailed, I entered the profile into the Beer Smith software and was finally on track – well, with exception of figuring out how to get the best performance out of the float switch. Not that I really need to do that to make decent beer, but since the brew rig is set up for it, I figured I would give it a try.ĭuring the first year of having the sculpture, I spent each brew session trying to “dial-in” all the losses from cooling and transfers. No more lifting hot stainless vessels and now I could easily perform more advanced step mashes. I finally reached a point where I was tired of lifting vessels to transfer, sparge and boil wort so I took advantage of a sale on a More Beer 1550 sculpture. Since I was batch sparging, I never had complete control over more involved mashing techniques that one might do for lagers or beers with a lot of adjuncts. I have been all grain brewing for a couple of years that started with a 10 gallon round Rubbermaid cooler from Home Depot that I modified with a brass drain valve and thermometer. ![]()
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