brian_muz
Brewer
Hi BeerSmith brains trust. Looking for some advice on a problem I had with my latest brew.
I really wanted to nail my mash temp this time around. I was after a mash temp of 66.5 degrees C and BeerSmith recommended a mash in temp of X (Don?t have BS handy at the moment). I thought the best way to nail this was to NOT adjust for mash tun temp. Instead I added water a few degrees higher than the recommended strike water temp and left the mash tun alone for 15-20 mins until my thermopen showed It had cooled to the exact strike temp recommended. My thinking was that with this time the mash tun would have settled into temp nicely. I?d also measured and updated the grain temp and everything seemed perfect.
I wasn?t expecting the mash temp to be right to the tenth of a degree but when I check then temp five mins into the mash it was 2.2 degrees C too high (I took the temp at multiple points in the mash. There was about 0.3 degrees variance each way at points but 2.2 was the average).
2.2 degrees seem like a significant variance. Is there some variable I?m not accounting for?
I ended up dipping a piece of stainless steel I?d placed in the freezer into the mash briefly and it dropped to the right temp quickly. I just really want to dial in this strike water/mash temp scenario so I don?t need to do this in the future.
I really wanted to nail my mash temp this time around. I was after a mash temp of 66.5 degrees C and BeerSmith recommended a mash in temp of X (Don?t have BS handy at the moment). I thought the best way to nail this was to NOT adjust for mash tun temp. Instead I added water a few degrees higher than the recommended strike water temp and left the mash tun alone for 15-20 mins until my thermopen showed It had cooled to the exact strike temp recommended. My thinking was that with this time the mash tun would have settled into temp nicely. I?d also measured and updated the grain temp and everything seemed perfect.
I wasn?t expecting the mash temp to be right to the tenth of a degree but when I check then temp five mins into the mash it was 2.2 degrees C too high (I took the temp at multiple points in the mash. There was about 0.3 degrees variance each way at points but 2.2 was the average).
2.2 degrees seem like a significant variance. Is there some variable I?m not accounting for?
I ended up dipping a piece of stainless steel I?d placed in the freezer into the mash briefly and it dropped to the right temp quickly. I just really want to dial in this strike water/mash temp scenario so I don?t need to do this in the future.