Definition of "sparging" []

• Present participle of sparge. (verb)

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• "Once you've absorbed the brewers' jargon, stocked up on the necessary equipment and swallowed a digestible dose of the relevant science, you'll be working with wort, mastering malt, sparging your grains, differentiating stouts from pilsners and pairing your swills with anything from swine to spiced pear tart."
• "To treat the 2008 vintage, winemakers here also turned to high-tech filtering systems like reverse osmosis, where wine is run through a machine that temporarily separates the "red" from the wine, and "sparging," a process that injects gases such as carbon dioxide into the liquid."
• "In other words, the reduction in volume comes primarily from sparging less."