First of all, I love this software. But there's one thing that is causing me a lot of problems and I think it's easily fixable.
I'm draining the mash tun and doing a single batch sparge. Once drained, I need to find out the sparge temp needed to hit 168F (or 170F). Beersmith does not calculate the sparge temperature, it just has a default of 168. 168 is clearly wrong, because that results in a grain bed in the mid 150's -- I tried over the weekend. After lautering, the grain bed drops in temp to around 140 (with a mash of 152). So what "strike" temp will I need to hit 170 on my sparge?
So, I'm using the infusion tool to manually calculate, but it's time consuming to have to manually enter all the numbers, and these numbers change with every recipe.
PLUS, I don't know how much to put under "starting water volume" -- do I add just the amount of water in my MLT deadspace? Or should I also include the water the grainbed has absorbed during the mash? Both give very different results.
Thanks!
I'm draining the mash tun and doing a single batch sparge. Once drained, I need to find out the sparge temp needed to hit 168F (or 170F). Beersmith does not calculate the sparge temperature, it just has a default of 168. 168 is clearly wrong, because that results in a grain bed in the mid 150's -- I tried over the weekend. After lautering, the grain bed drops in temp to around 140 (with a mash of 152). So what "strike" temp will I need to hit 170 on my sparge?
So, I'm using the infusion tool to manually calculate, but it's time consuming to have to manually enter all the numbers, and these numbers change with every recipe.
PLUS, I don't know how much to put under "starting water volume" -- do I add just the amount of water in my MLT deadspace? Or should I also include the water the grainbed has absorbed during the mash? Both give very different results.
Thanks!