No Mashout

[Nosybear]

I use cold water for the Sparge. No difference from heating to 170 or whatever google is suggesting currently.

There's some truth in that....

 

[Nosybear]

Interesting, hope you don't mind if I pursue this a little further jmac...

So Bob, if my total water volume is 8.6 gallons, with 12.6 lbs of grist, mash thickness 1.5g/lb, strike 4.7g, should I just do a batch Sparge with the balance of the water after first runnings?

Yep. It takes effort to get astringency from a batch sparge, so just use whatever is left over after mashing.

 

[Hawkbox]

Interesting, hope you don't mind if I pursue this a little further jmac...

So Bob, if my total water volume is 8.6 gallons, with 12.6 lbs of grist, mash thickness 1.5g/lb, strike 4.7g, should I just do a batch Sparge with the balance of the water after first runnings?

That's all I do, it typically ends up around half and half for mash in and sparge when I am sparging. Additionally I use hot tap water with a campden tablet and just sparge with that, works pretty good and saves a lot of time.

 

[BOB357]

Interesting, hope you don't mind if I pursue this a little further jmac...

So Bob, if my total water volume is 8.6 gallons, with 12.6 lbs of grist, mash thickness 1.5g/lb, strike 4.7g, should I just do a batch Sparge with the balance of the water after first runnings?

Thought I responded to this already, but guess not. That's plenty close IMO. You should be just fine.

 

[Craigerrr]

One less step, same result, I'm down with it Jimmy!