I've been using this sparge arm for a while now. It's sturdy does the job and has been helping me with my mash efficiency.

The ultimate sparge arm is a great addition to my brewery and was simple to use.. build quality is great. Would recommend this to anyone considering a sparge arm setup. I utilize 20 gallon Blichmann kettles and the sparge arm fits perfectly.

just got it going to work great, i have a spike 50gal set-up and the sits right in the middle .hope to use it for christmas!!!!

Love it! Height is easily adjusted, and flow is easily regulated with the ball valve. There is just room for a 1.5" tc if you rotate the clamp so it's not where the valve handle swings. (See video, if I'm allowed to upload.)

great tool requires no drilling I prefer it to another manufactureAuto sparge, I use a 15 gallon stainless mash tun

I had to remove the nylon nub in order to get it to go over the lip on my Dig-Mash 65L but used a pad from a quick clamp to protect the side of the kettle. Also, if there were a way to better center the arm in the kettle it would be even more awesome. in the big 65L pot it still was off to the opposite side by three inches

Super easy to setup and use and gets the job done. Nothing fancy, just what you need. It would be nice if it could get a better spray when operating at low flow rates. At low flow rates the hot liquor just drops off the sides of the plate rather than getting a nice spray pattern. It’s really no issue though. I’d give it 4.5 stars if there was a half star option :)

20 years of brewing, countless setups to fly sparge. This is by far the best system I’ve used. Awesome product

Great product. If you have a 15+ gallon kettle/mash tun this is the sparge arm for you. With adjustable flow built in it make fine tuning the flow rate a breeze. I wish I would have bought this a long time ago. Solid quality and when used with a riptide pump it is perfect for my setup.

With the sparge arm y can have a clearest and clean wort. My process is easier and faster.

I bought this knowing it might not fit my 10 gallon Igloo cooler. I slightly bent the bracket holding the valve away from the cooler and it fits fine.

I've been using this sparge arm for a while now. It's sturdy, does the job, and has been helping me with my mash efficiency.

Too cold in Ohio for me to brew right now but I will soon get to try it out. Soon I hope.

The ultimate sparge arm is a great addition to my brewery and was simple to use.. build quality is great. Would recommend this to anyone considering a sparge arm setup. I utilize 20 gallon Blichmann kettles and the sparge arm fits perfectly.

This was a perfect fit for our brewing day. We used it for circulation and sparging. This unit is obvious quality and worth the money. It’s definitely one of the best pieces of brewing equipment we own.

If you want a proper circulation this equipment is legit. Especially useful in my Rims system.

Works exactly as it should. Heavy duty

Constructed very well and the features are nice. Awkward to store when not being used. There’s a lot less expensive ways to sparge, but this one looks pretty sharp on your system.

Brewed with the unit twice now and although I like the idea of it, it is overpriced for the functionality. There are considerably more and cheaper options to get the same job done. Purchased for my horizontal keggle system because I didn't want to drill more holes in my tun. My sparge arm has a slightly warped plate that doesn't allow for level dispersement of water. This probably would be less noticeable if it mounted to a keggle better. Ihave not experienced channeling issues because of it but given the price I'd expect a higher quality.

Works great for recirculating gluten free grains. The inside of the tube has no restrictions so it is easy for the smaller milled gf grains to pass through without getting stuck.

By recirculating my temperatures are much more even throughout the mash.

Great addition to my brew setup. I married this to a chugger pump for continuous mash recirculation.

I replaced two separate copper items with the sparge arm: a sparge loop and a copper wort return apparatus, both of which I constructed many years ago. To fit my Sanke keg, I had to remove a notch from the top chime of the keg. And notch the top of the keg to allow the sparge arm to drop all the down and to secure tight against the side of the keg. The return is not centered in the keg but is only off an inch or so. It performed well in the one batch I've done with it so far. Only change I would recommend would be a larger knurled nut so you could really crank it tight against the keg to keep the entire arm from shifting. The notch I made to hold it, however, keeps it secure.

Sparge arm construction appears to be very durable and should last a long time. Works well with no issues. As mentioned in a previous review one design improvement would be to make it adjustable in the horizontal access so that it is more centered in a 10 gal kettle, but this is a minor issue,

The technique you have to apply to this is the one they give in the description: You should have about 2" of sparge water sitting on top of the grain bed, and position the "shower head" level with or submerged in the layer of clear sparge water. After a few minutes that clear water level forms on top of the grain bed, and the grain bed will hold it there and let it seep through slowly. The sparge arm will keep adding water to maintain that level, and it covers the whole grain bed only because the top of the grain bed is flooded. I have figured this out with lots of trials and by tracking efficiency. The ultimate sparge arm does not do well what most people imagine for fly sparging: sprinkle water over the top of the whole grain bed at the same rate it seeps through. The flow rate is very controllable, but it will not spread water out over the entire top surface of a grain bed (unless you blast it) *I always have a 10 gallon batch with a large grain bed. Maybe with a smaller grain bed it won't hold a layer of sparge water on top as well?--I don't know. I love the sparge arm because of its consistency: the rate is highly adjustable down to a crazy slow trickle, because it won't move at all unless I make it move, because it won't clog, and because it deposits water so softly that you can use this method successfully, without washing large tunnels into the grain bed. Also for cleanup, I rinse the kettle and the sparge arm and then recirculate PBW water through the setup at high flow with the ultimate sparge arm (USA); this way it rinses does the sides of the kettle and helps a little more with clean up. I don't regret the purchase, but if you learn to do this sparging technique effectively, however, you'll realize there are cheaper ways (1/3 the cost or less) to do the same--something I had wondered about and can now say is probably true.

I recently picked up one of these as a birthday present to myself. I was looking for ways to improve my sparging process and hopefully gain some efficiency in the process. I have a Blichmann AutoSparge for controlling flow during fly sparging, but it only has a length of silicone tubing for directing the flow onto the top of the mash. It always seemed like this created too much circulation on top of the grain bed and I was worried it could create channeling along the sides of the kettle and as a result hurt my numbers. I find that that running the Ultimate Sparge Arm instead of a simple length of silicone tubing definitely solves that issue.PROS: - Helps reduce turbulent flow - Improves efficiency - Sturdy construction - Looks super coolCONS: - Pricey - Set for a standard diameter pot (may not be perfectly centered in your kettle) - Quite tall - No option to purchase without the ball valveCheck out my video review if you're thinking about buying this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0OHUiev-SM&t=11s

Works great!

Fits great on my 15 gallon Morebeer tun. It even adjusts high enough for a heavy grain bill, whereas my $15 sparge arm sat in the mash and siphoned wort back into the hot liquor tank.

This is a well constructed using stainless steel. It is easy to clean. For a 5 gallon batch set up this is a little over kill, but as I upgrade to larger batches this will work perfect.

Great product! Super gentle on the grainbed and works flawlessly. Super easy to install and operate and now my buddy owns one too.