I have a Braumeister 50 and I want to produce a 56L batch at 1.050 so using the Vol tab in Beersmith I have configured water additions at pre-boil and pre-ferment.
I mash with 55L water and 11.9Kg grain. At the end of the mash I add 5L water to achieve 1.053 which according to Beersmith, that will give me a pre-boil gravity of 1.053.
I then boil for 60 mins and during this time, 8L wort will boil off. Beersmith says that the gravity will reduce to 1.050 which puzzles me because if I boil off 8L of water I would expect the gravity to increase.
Beersmith says that my post boil gravity is 1.050 which is what I want my final value to be but I've still got 12.56L water to add so that's going to cause the gravity to plummet.
It doesn't really matter that I'm using a Braumeister, it's more the fact that I don't see how the calculations make sense.
I mash with 55L water and 11.9Kg grain. At the end of the mash I add 5L water to achieve 1.053 which according to Beersmith, that will give me a pre-boil gravity of 1.053.
I then boil for 60 mins and during this time, 8L wort will boil off. Beersmith says that the gravity will reduce to 1.050 which puzzles me because if I boil off 8L of water I would expect the gravity to increase.
Beersmith says that my post boil gravity is 1.050 which is what I want my final value to be but I've still got 12.56L water to add so that's going to cause the gravity to plummet.
It doesn't really matter that I'm using a Braumeister, it's more the fact that I don't see how the calculations make sense.