cztrollolcz
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Hey there,
I am going into brewing at bigger volumes, because my recipes which I use are tested and I dont have to worry about wasting too much grains if it turns out it tastes horrible.
I was going with the BIAB - method - just put all the water in, add the grains, yady yady yada. Unfortunately that wont work with bigger batches - my boiler is 31l (fermenter is 32litres, so I dont have to worry about putting 25l of wort into it), but I am a bit confused on how to set this up in beersmith.
Lets say i want to brew 25litres - have the recipe all scaled up and have the equipment profile edited to have my mash tun volume at 31L. So when I go into the mash tab - what should I choose? Personally I want to do it the easiest way, as I would have the sparge water heating up on the stove, so i want to use as little of it as I can get away with. I can always calculate it by hand - lets say its saying I need to put in 33,24l - obviously too much, so I put in 29l, mash in and then after 60mins of mashing I take the bag out and have the rest of the water - in this case 4,24l ready and heated and run it over the grains (i have an oven rack I put on the boiler to hold the grains). The estimated pre-boil volume is 29l so there should be no problem fitting in the boiler, right?
But is there a way to set it up like this in beersmith? I saw people saying you should use single infusion, full body, no mash out or batch sparge, but I got a bit confused by it tbh...
I am going into brewing at bigger volumes, because my recipes which I use are tested and I dont have to worry about wasting too much grains if it turns out it tastes horrible.
I was going with the BIAB - method - just put all the water in, add the grains, yady yady yada. Unfortunately that wont work with bigger batches - my boiler is 31l (fermenter is 32litres, so I dont have to worry about putting 25l of wort into it), but I am a bit confused on how to set this up in beersmith.
Lets say i want to brew 25litres - have the recipe all scaled up and have the equipment profile edited to have my mash tun volume at 31L. So when I go into the mash tab - what should I choose? Personally I want to do it the easiest way, as I would have the sparge water heating up on the stove, so i want to use as little of it as I can get away with. I can always calculate it by hand - lets say its saying I need to put in 33,24l - obviously too much, so I put in 29l, mash in and then after 60mins of mashing I take the bag out and have the rest of the water - in this case 4,24l ready and heated and run it over the grains (i have an oven rack I put on the boiler to hold the grains). The estimated pre-boil volume is 29l so there should be no problem fitting in the boiler, right?
But is there a way to set it up like this in beersmith? I saw people saying you should use single infusion, full body, no mash out or batch sparge, but I got a bit confused by it tbh...