Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To spray or sprinkle.
- v. To introduce air or gas into (a liquid).
- n. A sprinkle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sprinkle; scatter.
- To throw water upon in a shower of small drops. See sparger.
- n. In brewing, the spray of heated water which is thrown upon malt in the preparation of ‘wort.’
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling.
WordNet 3.0
- v. agitate by introducing air or compressed gas
- v. scatter with liquid; wet lightly
- n. the act of sprinkling or splashing water
Etymologies
- Obsolete French espargier, from Old French, from Latin spargere. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Although "sparge" has been a synonym for "sprinkle" since the late 16th century, you're now most likely to come across this word in one of two contexts.”
“Oh, and I'd need a sparge apparatus, propane burner, about ten feet of tubing, a five gallon glass jug, a six gallon glass jug, caps, airlock.”
“In order to capture some of that residual sugar, the grains are rinsed with warm water around 170 degrees or so and that water drains out and is added to the wort as well. side note: if this is a continuous process, we add as much water as we take wort as we're taking it, it's called "continuous sparge" – this was invented by Germans”
“The typical homebrew practice maximizes sparge water by figuring out how much water is going to evaporate during the boil and how much water will be absorbed by the grain during the mash.”
“A possible answer to the "why doesn't everyone do it" question: sparge efficiency.”
“Basically, you calculate that X amount of water will boil off, Y amount will be absorbed, add that to your batch size, subtract the amount you need for the mash, and that's your sparge water.”
“As i'm sure you know, the sparge is rinsing off the grain to get the maximum amount of fermentable sugars out, and the more water you run though the grain (ie the longer the sparge) the better chance you have of getting a higher efficiency (pulling the most sugar possible out of the grain, thus getting the most bang for your buck grain wise).”
“It's commonly used to sparge malted barley when brewing all-grain homebrews.”
“Obiectivul este de ştiinţă au încercat calcifiere a realităţii obiective, prin obtinerea toate realităţile subiective să fie de acord, dar vigoare a Kundalini este de aşa natură încât să pot indoi si chiar sparge toate normele obiectiv, deoarece Ea este atotputernic, dar ea face acest lucru într-un mod care lasă fiecăruia în condiţii de siguranţă-realitate păzit obiectiv în tact.”
“To brew an all-grain version, add 4 ¾ more pounds of pale malt, increase the mash and sparge liquor volumes by 1 gallon each, and boil the wort intensely for 2 hours add 30 minutes to the boil before adding the first hops to evaporate off excess volume.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sparge’.
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Vocab List 2
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