BeerSmith™ Home Brewing Forum
BeerSmith Software => Support for v1.4 => Topic started by: mr_beer on August 28, 2007, 08:41:21 AM
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This is a more general question regarding a number of recipes that I have entered into BeerSmith. It is probably not a ‘bug’ but I posted it here for a start.
I told BeerSmith I'm going to do a partial mash. The software said I should mash with 1.4 qts of water, and then sparge with 6.43 gallons, leaving me with a boil volume of 6.41 gallons.
My understanding is that sparging with that much water will draw out excess tannins. Should I not worry about the tannins because of amount of sparge water?
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Yes,
I do recommend sparging with less water. A few gallons should be sufficient. Add the rest of the water after that and then mix in your other ingredients and boil.
Brad
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You might want to change the language in the recipe directions ...
Sparge Round 1: Sparge with x.xx gal of water
Remove language regarding Sparge Round 2
That would help literal folks like me who often slavishly follow the instructions!!
Thanks for the quick answer.
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I've run into this as well. Being new to partial mashing, I actually sparged with the 6 gallons of water that was instructed (we'll see what happens with the beer). Is there a particular mash profile I can choose for partial mashing that will provide the correct amount of sparge water? Is this a bug, or have I entered things incorrectly somehow?
Thanks!
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I think your issue is in your equipment profile. You need to add the amount of top-up water you're going to add to the kettle and/or fermenter. It sounds like these are set to zero so Beersmith is assuming you want to get the full volume from the mash.
Brian