Environmental Remediation Techniques

noun a type of coffee pot used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through ground coffee

• The percolator is an essential tool for brewing coffee in large quantities.
• I always use the percolator when I have guests over for brunch.
• My grandma's percolator makes the best coffee, hands down.
• Ideas percolate in my mind like coffee in a percolator, slowly brewing until they're ready to be shared.

verb to spray or sprinkle water or other liquid over something, typically to cool or moisten it

• The brewery uses a sparge arm to evenly distribute hot water over the grain bed during the lautering process.
• Make sure to sparge the grains thoroughly to extract all the sugars for a good beer.
• I always forget to sparge properly when I'm brewing at home.
• She tried to sparge her thoughts, filtering out the negative ones and focusing on the positive.