Hi
I have a single vessel electric brewer (hopcat/ace/guten) that is my sole way of heating water. I can then use the pump to move a portion of it to a cooler for sparge water.
The problem I have is that beersmith doesn't seem to be compatible with this workflow in terms of generating brew steps or calculating temp adjustments for me. Let me explain.
This would be the procedure:
-because sparge water is hotter than Mash water, I need to initially heat all water to 76, leaving some room(let's say x litres) for temperature compensation water.
-after I transfer the hotter sparge water out, I'd like beersmith to tell me how many litres(x) of tap-temp water(usually about 23c for me) gets the correct volume and temp for my strike water.
So my last brew I did the calc outside of bs, and it was something like:
-heat 49l to 76c
-transfer 22.5l to cooler for sparge water
-add 7.5l of 23c water to the remainder to get it to 69c strike water.
How can I get bs to tell me these things? I couldn't even find a temperature adjustment tool outside of the recipe.
I tried adding dummy steps in the Mash profile but it throws the real steps out no matter what.
Is there anything I can do here to have beersmith reflect/understand my process?
Thanks
I have a single vessel electric brewer (hopcat/ace/guten) that is my sole way of heating water. I can then use the pump to move a portion of it to a cooler for sparge water.
The problem I have is that beersmith doesn't seem to be compatible with this workflow in terms of generating brew steps or calculating temp adjustments for me. Let me explain.
This would be the procedure:
-because sparge water is hotter than Mash water, I need to initially heat all water to 76, leaving some room(let's say x litres) for temperature compensation water.
-after I transfer the hotter sparge water out, I'd like beersmith to tell me how many litres(x) of tap-temp water(usually about 23c for me) gets the correct volume and temp for my strike water.
So my last brew I did the calc outside of bs, and it was something like:
-heat 49l to 76c
-transfer 22.5l to cooler for sparge water
-add 7.5l of 23c water to the remainder to get it to 69c strike water.
How can I get bs to tell me these things? I couldn't even find a temperature adjustment tool outside of the recipe.
I tried adding dummy steps in the Mash profile but it throws the real steps out no matter what.
Is there anything I can do here to have beersmith reflect/understand my process?
Thanks