Top products from r/lagerbrewing
We found 1 product mention on r/lagerbrewing. We ranked the 1 resulting product by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Concord Cookware 3-Piece Stainless Steel Cake Baking Pan, 11 by 12 by 14-Inch
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Set includes: 11"", 12.5"" And 14"" stainless steel cake pansComes in color boxSet is made from full 18/8 fully polished heavy duty stainless steelEach pan is 2.4"" Deep; 3 sizes lets you bake any sized cakeHigh quality and oven safe
Show Reddit reviews
BIAB actually can be made to work well if you are careful.
Optimal? I would say HERMS or directly heated recirculated no-sparge. RIMS scares me because it exposes a small amount of wort to a large amount of heat at once and is more prone to scorching.
I use a directly heated stainless steel heavy duty kettle with a false bottom as my no-sparge mash tun. The liquid gets pulled from an outlet below the false bottom and reintroduced in the top of the mash, resulting in very clear cast out wort by the end of the mash.
Whatever way you go, I recommend a floating lid that covers as much as the wort surface as possible. I use these https://www.amazon.com/Concord-Cookware-3-Piece-Stainless-14-Inch/dp/B005P15QBM
The 14" one covers about 98% of the surface of my wort during the entire duration of the mash. I use a second one in my boil kettle to keep the wort covered there during lautering and as it's heating to a boil.
It's also essential that your pump and tubing fittings are completely leak-free. I don't just mean they don't leak liquid, I mean that they don't suck in micro bubbles of air via the Venturi effect. Tri-clover fittings are the way to go.
With a tight, recirculated no-sparge system like that with floating caps and no leaks in the pump lines, you can get away with 30 mg/l SMB total.