I'm stumped a little here. When I have BSmith make a brew sheet, it states I need more water than computed in the water needed tool.
I'm doing a batch sparge with 22 lbs of grain to produce and end product boil of 8.3 gallons.
To simplify things, I have all of the water lose based settings to zero (losses in mashtun, chiller, etc.).
Looking at batch sparge mash (brew sheet).
It states I need 27.5 qts for initial mash.
Then two sparges (mash tun too small I guess)
sparge 1: 7.71 gal
sparge 2. 3.8 gal
Add water to achieve boil volume of 10.6 gal
My math shows this is a total of 18.358 gallons of water going into the mash/sparge. Subtracting 2.64 gallons, this leaves 15.72 gal pre-boil. This is way too much. (Assuming 11% evaporation rate. 90 min boil)
Looking at the water needed tool. It comes up with a total of 6.12 gal sparge water. This produces a boil volume of 10.35. The 10.35 and 10.6 are close, maybe a due to difference in temperature and volume size (2-3%).
Any advice on where to look to make these numbers line up. I checked and double checked to see if there is a setting I'm missing, or a parameter that is set some where eles.
I'm doing a batch sparge with 22 lbs of grain to produce and end product boil of 8.3 gallons.
To simplify things, I have all of the water lose based settings to zero (losses in mashtun, chiller, etc.).
Looking at batch sparge mash (brew sheet).
It states I need 27.5 qts for initial mash.
Then two sparges (mash tun too small I guess)
sparge 1: 7.71 gal
sparge 2. 3.8 gal
Add water to achieve boil volume of 10.6 gal
My math shows this is a total of 18.358 gallons of water going into the mash/sparge. Subtracting 2.64 gallons, this leaves 15.72 gal pre-boil. This is way too much. (Assuming 11% evaporation rate. 90 min boil)
Looking at the water needed tool. It comes up with a total of 6.12 gal sparge water. This produces a boil volume of 10.35. The 10.35 and 10.6 are close, maybe a due to difference in temperature and volume size (2-3%).
Any advice on where to look to make these numbers line up. I checked and double checked to see if there is a setting I'm missing, or a parameter that is set some where eles.