Hi
I've been searching all over the forum and almost find my answer to my question.
I have a 15,5 gallons keg as a mash tun. I have a mash screen that cover to bottom and I need at least 2 galons of water to reach it. I also use a pump that leave almost nothing as a "dead space". I've read in several topic that if I want beer smith to calculate the right amount of water for the water/grain ratio I need to put a negative value in the "lauter tun dead space" that equal the value of the water needed to reach the mash screen.
Others tell that I just need to recalculate manualy what is the real water/grain ratio considering the water volume that I need to add into the mash to make sure it cover the mash screen.
I've tried both and I don't have consistent temperature for my mashing in temp. Is anyone know which way is the right way to configure BS ?
Thanks
Here a couple of topics that talks about that situation :
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,1177.0/prev_next,prev.html#new
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,1831.msg7348.html#msg7348
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,3972.msg17589.html#msg17589
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,6617.msg26424.html#msg26424
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,3509.msg15661.html#msg15661
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,4138.msg18186.html#msg18186
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,6404.msg25614.html#msg25614
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,3591.msg15993.html#msg15993
I've been searching all over the forum and almost find my answer to my question.
I have a 15,5 gallons keg as a mash tun. I have a mash screen that cover to bottom and I need at least 2 galons of water to reach it. I also use a pump that leave almost nothing as a "dead space". I've read in several topic that if I want beer smith to calculate the right amount of water for the water/grain ratio I need to put a negative value in the "lauter tun dead space" that equal the value of the water needed to reach the mash screen.
Others tell that I just need to recalculate manualy what is the real water/grain ratio considering the water volume that I need to add into the mash to make sure it cover the mash screen.
I've tried both and I don't have consistent temperature for my mashing in temp. Is anyone know which way is the right way to configure BS ?
Thanks
Here a couple of topics that talks about that situation :
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,1177.0/prev_next,prev.html#new
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,1831.msg7348.html#msg7348
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,3972.msg17589.html#msg17589
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,6617.msg26424.html#msg26424
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,3509.msg15661.html#msg15661
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,4138.msg18186.html#msg18186
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,6404.msg25614.html#msg25614
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,3591.msg15993.html#msg15993