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[Poptop]

I shoot for 1.5 or 1.6 per pound.  On the fact that most of my batches have somewhere around 11-12 pounds of grain, I go 5 to 5.5 in the mash and 3 to 3.5 in the sparge.  Seems to work out pretty well.

[denny]

I shoot for 1.5 or 1.6 per pound.  On the fact that most of my batches have somewhere around 11-12 pounds of grain, I go 5 to 5.5 in the mash and 3 to 3.5 in the sparge.  Seems to work out pretty well.

 

Pretty close to where I end up, too

[porter]

I add water such that half of my pre-boil volume is run off before adding the sparge water. No top up water. Just seems tidy that way. I've done no sparge before on five gallon batches and it worked fine. But given that I have one burner and my largest kettle is a keggle, batch sparging is a necessity for 10 gallon batches.

[SchwanzBrewer]

I really need to make a small set up again. I'd love to do some no-sparge brewing of 5 gal batches. 

[Big Nake]

I shoot for 1.5 or 1.6 per pound.  On the fact that most of my batches have somewhere around 11-12 pounds of grain, I go 5 to 5.5 in the mash and 3 to 3.5 in the sparge.  Seems to work out pretty well.

That's about where I end up too. 5 gallons of mash water (ish) and between 2.5 and 3 gallons for sparge. I did not try the no-sparge method on Saturday... I didn't have the ability to look at the process closely to see where I might need to make adjustments. At some point I will get that process down and give it a try and see how the beers come out. Cheers.

[BrewerGeorge]

Used to be that no-sparge cost about 10% efficiency.  Is that still the case?

 

What about mash time?  Still an hour?

[HVB]

Used to be that no-sparge cost about 10% efficiency.  Is that still the case?

 

What about mash time?  Still an hour?

I gained efficiency with BIAB.

 

I mash about 30 minutes then jump the RIMS to 165 and let that go for another 15.  I think overall mash times could be cut to 30 total with little impact.