The thought of a two tun approach for wort making//using a vacuum
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 3:09 pm
So I have been looking at the process of making wort, up to the point where it goes into the Carboy. Almost everyone uses a Three stage system.
I was wondering how much luck people have had using just two tuns. I have done some thinking on it and wonder if the system used for racking wine could be brought over here. The wort doesn't really get too pissed off if you introduce it to oxygen, but would a lack of pressure hurt it?
My plan is to still do the three steps, but utilize a vacuum pump to do the work.
1. Heat the water, then use the vacuum pump to pull the water over to the mash tun to fill it. Opening the valves between the tuns,
2. Let the mash do its thing (make tasty beer hopefully)
3. Put the pump onto the starting tun and run the outside valves to bring the fluid from the mash tun to the boiler through a filter if needed.
The whole point of this is to use the lack of pressure to do the work gravity would normally do. Have a scavenger lead in each side to get all the fluid out, so I would still have minimal loss. Am I going way to mad scientist on this?
I was wondering how much luck people have had using just two tuns. I have done some thinking on it and wonder if the system used for racking wine could be brought over here. The wort doesn't really get too pissed off if you introduce it to oxygen, but would a lack of pressure hurt it?
My plan is to still do the three steps, but utilize a vacuum pump to do the work.
1. Heat the water, then use the vacuum pump to pull the water over to the mash tun to fill it. Opening the valves between the tuns,
2. Let the mash do its thing (make tasty beer hopefully)
3. Put the pump onto the starting tun and run the outside valves to bring the fluid from the mash tun to the boiler through a filter if needed.
The whole point of this is to use the lack of pressure to do the work gravity would normally do. Have a scavenger lead in each side to get all the fluid out, so I would still have minimal loss. Am I going way to mad scientist on this?