Mon May 23, 2016 4:19 pm
You will have to call the doctor because your boner hasn't gone away for the whole 4 hours you have been brewing with your pump for the first time....
It really is fantastically better if you have a 3 tier system. I have a setup with a electric kettle on bottom, and two coolers on tier 2 and 3. I heat the strike and pump it into the mash tun. Then while mashing I heat the sparge water and pump it up into the 3rd tier cooler. Then I recirculate and either run off the wort then batch sparge from the 3rd cooler or I fly sparge from it. Either way seems to work well. It really was a whole new world though, I strongly recommend it.
Oh, and I have a chugger with the stainless head. I'm not sure why anyone would get the plastic head. As far as one pump being better/worse than another, I have no data on that.
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