BK
MT
HLT
S P I K E T R I O U S E R G U I D E
22
Brew Day –
Sparging
Now it’s time to rinse your mash grains,
which will help you maximize the amount of
sugar available from the mash process.
1.
When your mash is complete, turn off the pumps
and close all the valves.
2.
Connect two feet of silicone tubing to the side
pickup of the mash tun. The tubing will float on top
of the grain bed, allowing for even recirculation.
3.
Move the hose attached to the inlet of the HERMs
port to the Boil Kettle (BK) whirlpool port (
Green
).
4.
Move the hose attached to the HLT top recirculation
port down to the newly vacated inlet of the HERMS
PRO TIP:
Pumping hot water through your
HERMS coil clears out any wort while also
cleaning out the inside.
PRO TIP:
Once the wort level is above the
element in the BK, turn on the BK element. This
will allow your BK to be near-boil by the time you
finish your sparge, which helps shorten your Brew
Day by about 30 minutes. We recommend the
PID up to 100% power.
Figure 4
port (
Black
).
5.
Open the HLT drain valve and the HERMs inlet and
outlet valves.
6.
Purge the water pump.
7.
Turn on water pump and open the valve.
8.
Slowly open the MT top recirculation valve until
you see a small trickle of water over the grain bed.
9.
Leave an inch or two of water over the grain bed.
This will naturally disperse your sparge water
over the grain bed. As your sparge water trickles
through the grain bed, it will wash the sugars from
the grain into the boil kettle.
10.
Open your MT drain valve.
11.
Crack open the whirlpool port valve on the BK.
12.
Purge the wort pump.
13.
Turn your wort pump on.
14.
Slowly drain the wort from the MT to the BK.
15.
Equalize the sparge in and wort out of the boil
kettle by matching sparge and MT drain flows.
Keep both down to a trickle.
