sparge
\ spahrj \,
verb;
1.to scatter or sprinkle.
noun:
1.a sprinkling.
Quotes:
Technically, to sparge is to spray or sprinkle hot water over the grain bed. The terms “lauter” and “ sparge ” are often used interchangeably by homebrewers.
-- Amelia Slayton Loftus, "Sustainable Homebrewing," 2014
It is preferable to start sparging when the first ten barrels of wort are in copper, at the rate of one-half to three-quarters of a barrel per quarter of malt...
-- Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe, "A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry," 1890
Origin:
Sparge comes from the Latin spargere meaning "to sprinkle, scatter." It entered English in the mid-1500s.
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