soflabrewer
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Hello all. Fairly new to BeerSmith.
I have a question about the water to grain ratio displayed in the mash step window. The program had me strike with 14.63qts of water to 8.5 lbs of grain. I see this as a ratio of 1.72qt/lb. BeerSmith shows this as 1.25qt/lb. It looks like the program is only taking into account 10.63qts. Where is the program hiding the additional 4qts? Grain absorption is 4qts and mash tun dead space is 4qts. Is one of these losses the culprit? I'm still trying to understand how the program comes up with its numbers. Can anyone shed some light on this please? Slainte.
I have a question about the water to grain ratio displayed in the mash step window. The program had me strike with 14.63qts of water to 8.5 lbs of grain. I see this as a ratio of 1.72qt/lb. BeerSmith shows this as 1.25qt/lb. It looks like the program is only taking into account 10.63qts. Where is the program hiding the additional 4qts? Grain absorption is 4qts and mash tun dead space is 4qts. Is one of these losses the culprit? I'm still trying to understand how the program comes up with its numbers. Can anyone shed some light on this please? Slainte.