Tonight I brewed Bill Pierce's St. Chuck's Porter, an excellent robust porter that I've brewed once before. This was my first time batch sparging. The brew session went well -- I came within two points of hitting my target gravity and batch sparging knocked about an hour off of the time it takes me to brew. This should be a good beer and I'm definitely a batch sparging convert. Batch sparging required a lot less "babysitting" than fly sparging and gave me the same efficiency I had been getting with fly sparging (~75%). I'm stoked. And I must confess, I have an ulterior motive for brewing this beer: I'm using it to build a big ol' yeast cake for my next beer, a Wee Heavy!