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Re: Why do you do what you do?
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 7:55 am
by HerbMeowing
The_Professor wrote:... a mesh lined bottling bucket for sparging.
Will try this method next go'round.
Curious to see how much crud it traps.
Re: Why do you do what you do?
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 6:02 pm
by Crazy Climber
I do BIAB. And I "do what I do" because....
I have a fermentation chamber that can handle a 5g fermenter, tops -- meaning, 4g batches, max. I mostly use a 3g Better Bottle, so the majority of my batches are 2.5g, or half-batches. When I go bigger, it's usually 3.5 to 4g, max.
Doing full-blown recirculating/sparging for a half-batch seems like a lot of extra work and time, compared to BIAB. Plus, at the smaller batch sizes, I'm not dealing with a crazy amount of grain to lift, drain and squeeze. Plus, it means one less piece of equipment to own.
Form follows function, as they say...