Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

I could be over thinking this, but in concerned about using the pump from the mash tun not with the aspect of compacting the grain bed because I'll have a valve on the outgoing end of the pump. But how do you filter the initial grains to set the grain bed without having that little bit of Grist going into the pump? Will it damage the pump or no?

A. Don't worry about it and just vorlauf as normal with the pump.

B. Have a secondary hose to vorlauf the first couple quarts to get the Grist out and then hook up the hose connected to the pump and use the pump as normal.

C. Install a T before the valve coming off the mash tun with another valve to drain and collect the initial Grist then closing that valve and it turning the other valve to the pump on.

Thoughts?

The Blichmann Quick Connect are compatible with 1/2-inch pipe NPT. That's pretty standard.

And, I agree the Kent connectors are endearingly cheap. But, probably not sanitary.

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If I have a heavy wheat load and not using rice hulls I vorlauf manually like you usually would then hook up the pump. Most of the time I just do it all with the pump. I start slow then open up some more. Manoneter on my mashtun tells me the pump flow is too high.