Hello everyone,
I am fairly new into all grain brewing. I have been dabbling with some small 1 gallon batches using beersmith as a compass.
In my recipe design I have 2.23 lb of total grains in my recipe for a maple chocolate porter that I plugged in from the Brooklyn Brewshop recipe book. In beersmith under the mash tab, it says 1.90 lb in the "mash grain wt" box and asks me to mash in with 2.38 qt of water (using 1.25 qt per lb). That number makes sense if it hinges on the 1.90 lb in the mash grain weight box.
If my total grains bill is 2.23 lb, then shouldn't I be mashing in with 2.79 qt of water? (ex, 2.23 lb x 1.25 qt?)
I guess my question is that I don't understand the difference between the two numbers. In my mind, they should be the same. Why is there a difference between "total grain" weight in the design and "mash grain wt" in the mash tab?
Any insight would be super helpful.
I am fairly new into all grain brewing. I have been dabbling with some small 1 gallon batches using beersmith as a compass.
In my recipe design I have 2.23 lb of total grains in my recipe for a maple chocolate porter that I plugged in from the Brooklyn Brewshop recipe book. In beersmith under the mash tab, it says 1.90 lb in the "mash grain wt" box and asks me to mash in with 2.38 qt of water (using 1.25 qt per lb). That number makes sense if it hinges on the 1.90 lb in the mash grain weight box.
If my total grains bill is 2.23 lb, then shouldn't I be mashing in with 2.79 qt of water? (ex, 2.23 lb x 1.25 qt?)
I guess my question is that I don't understand the difference between the two numbers. In my mind, they should be the same. Why is there a difference between "total grain" weight in the design and "mash grain wt" in the mash tab?
Any insight would be super helpful.