Murphys_Law
Well-Known Member
I've been playing around with the best way to incorporate LODO into my BIAB set up and 2 areas concern me: adding grains to my strike water and dough balls/stirring; and lifting the bag and letting it drain/splash.
As a work around I was thinking of doing something like this:
1) Heat strike water in my Spike 10G kettle
2) Using one of those little brown pumps, transfer water (underlet) to a (yet to be acquired)Home Depot water cooler (will be lined with the bag I've been using for "regular" BIAB")
3) Using the same brown pump, transfer wort from HD cooler back into my Spike to begin the boil (will of course have to modify the cooler to add the ball lock)
Does this sound like an OK process? Am I overthinking this?! If I do a full volume mash will I get enough wort from the cooler mash tun into my kettle w/o the need to sparge or will this method not drain as thoroughly as say lifting the bag and using gravity to drain? I am really curious about the latter because I have no experience with doing this...always just done a single vessel "traditional" BIAB.
Curious to hear thoughts, etc for those who do something similar.
As a work around I was thinking of doing something like this:
1) Heat strike water in my Spike 10G kettle
2) Using one of those little brown pumps, transfer water (underlet) to a (yet to be acquired)Home Depot water cooler (will be lined with the bag I've been using for "regular" BIAB")
3) Using the same brown pump, transfer wort from HD cooler back into my Spike to begin the boil (will of course have to modify the cooler to add the ball lock)
Does this sound like an OK process? Am I overthinking this?! If I do a full volume mash will I get enough wort from the cooler mash tun into my kettle w/o the need to sparge or will this method not drain as thoroughly as say lifting the bag and using gravity to drain? I am really curious about the latter because I have no experience with doing this...always just done a single vessel "traditional" BIAB.
Curious to hear thoughts, etc for those who do something similar.