Comment on Potential reasons for undershooting gravity
solidgrue@lemmy.world 3 months agoI’ve never heard of back flow during a sparge before, but it’s an interesting idea. Is that a common practice these days? I quit brewing maybe 10 years ago, and I was doing 20L batches with gravity feed. It was when the AIO systems were starting to become affordable.
Aarkon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Sorry if I expressed myself not clearly - when my pump is turned off, wort is flowing down the recirculation pipe due to gravity instead of up. It’s not a big amount of liquid going into the other direction, just enough to free up a clogged pump often enough. Also, this happens during the mash, not the sparge.