I'm curious about the different options around sparging when creating your mash in Beersmith.
I use a BrewZilla G4, and so I don't drain the mash tun before sparging. Although the entire grain bed is lifted from the water, and so I guess this could count as draining? I tend to batch sparge, but don't measure out each addition. I just fill a jug from the available sparge water and pour in until it's all gone or I've reached my estimated pre-boil volume.
So for this, it seems easiest to label my sparge a fly sparge, and ignore the batch sparge option. If I select 'batch sparge' with 'use equal batch sizes' then it increases the overall sparge water amount, for some reason. I keep my sparge water at around 10L for ease when no options are selected (and so defaults to fly sparge). Where is this extra water coming from?
Am I overthinking this? Shall I just let it remain as the default option on fly sparge, even though I don't technically fly sparge?
I use a BrewZilla G4, and so I don't drain the mash tun before sparging. Although the entire grain bed is lifted from the water, and so I guess this could count as draining? I tend to batch sparge, but don't measure out each addition. I just fill a jug from the available sparge water and pour in until it's all gone or I've reached my estimated pre-boil volume.
So for this, it seems easiest to label my sparge a fly sparge, and ignore the batch sparge option. If I select 'batch sparge' with 'use equal batch sizes' then it increases the overall sparge water amount, for some reason. I keep my sparge water at around 10L for ease when no options are selected (and so defaults to fly sparge). Where is this extra water coming from?
Am I overthinking this? Shall I just let it remain as the default option on fly sparge, even though I don't technically fly sparge?