How are the spent grains removed before boiling the wort?
Thank you for your interest in our BREWTREE systems. We have worked hard to make an affordable all grain system available to all levels of homebrewers. To answer your questions, the system is a 3-tier (actually 4-tier) system. This means that you have a seperate kettle for each part of the brewing process. Quick Answers: You do not need to remove the grain before boiling the wort – boiling occurs in a seperate vessle (the bottom kettle) than the mash/lauter tun. Yes – there is a sparge arm included with the system that hooks up to the Hot Liquor Tank and evenly sprinkles the mash bed with hot water. Long Answers: You heat water in the top kettle (Hot liquor tank) and run it into the middle kettle (Mash tun). You then add the crushed barley malt and stir well to make sure all grain has been thouroughly mixed with the water. Then the enzymes in the grain do their work. During the next hour you leave the mash tun alone, while heating sparge water in the Hot Liquor Tank. Sparge water is ju
