Today's brew

[Teej]

Spent part of my Christmas Eve brewing up a hearty Irish Red. Nudges the top end of the numbers for the style - in color and IBU...with a respectable gravity. Due to my inefficient batch sparge setup / practices, I used ~ 3# more base grain than some would have.

Used a venturi pump to pull wort from kettle into carboy. A luxury for today's brew (5 gal with an immersion chiller) but it'll be a real backsaver on 10gal counterflow chilled batches due to the lack of lifting.

Teej

[Ill hophead]

Did you use the wort wizard just a venturi pump? I'm looking at buying one or the other but I don't know where to get a 2 holed bung for my carboys if I just buy a venturi pump.

[Teej]

Originally posted by Ill hophead
Did you use the wort wizard just a venturi pump? I'm looking at buying one or the other but I don't know where to get a 2 holed bung for my carboys if I just buy a venturi pump.

I just used a VP. Carboy cap does stopper duty. Had to cut a stem off and enlarge the hole to get tubing in. (shrug).