Mash and Sparge water adjusments

tochsner

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I am trying out the water adjustment tool for the first time. I think I have it figured out pretty well. The problem that I have is that I collect my full volume of brewing liquor in one kettle to heat. I like to treat all of the water at one time. I don't treat the mash and sparge water separately.  I know I can just add the two totals together to get the actual additions but is there some setting in BS that will just how it as one addition and not split it between a mash and a sparge?


Tony
 
The only way to force it to combine all of the water additions is to use a BIAB mash profile which will result in only one set of water additions for the entire volume.


Brad
 
Was this ever updated? I would love to be able to calculate all of my my water additions into one instead of separating mash and sparge additions, without having to use a BIAB profile that doesn't allow for sparging.
 
I have it doing what you say.... although I'm not 100% sure I am doing it correctly.
If you go to tools, water profile tools, and create your salt additions this way. I.e. start with your base water, target a water profile, match profile and then save the salts to target.

You can now bring the target water into your recipe. It will tell you that the target includes salt additions and ask if you want them. Select yes. It will import the salt additions. Now look at the design page and they will be listed as totals. Switch back to the water tab and it will show them listed. Check the "don't include water salts" button and it will correct the math at the bottom (otherwise it includes the salts twice in the math).

I think this gives you the right total salts - but double check!!


If you import the water from the water tab in the recipe, it will split them out separately into sparge and mash..... which is also not what I want.
 
Was this ever updated? I would love to be able to calculate all of my my water additions into one instead of separating mash and sparge additions, without having to use a BIAB profile that doesn't allow for sparging.
I have no idea what kind of system you are using but if you can fill your vessel with the full volume of water just use the BIAB mash profile as Brad suggests then after adding your salts remove the volume of water you intend to sparge with.
 
I have no idea what kind of system you are using but if you can fill your vessel with the full volume of water just use the BIAB mash profile as Brad suggests then after adding your salts remove the volume of water you intend to sparge with.
If you use BIAB it doesn't calculate the correct mash volume and assumes you aren't sparging. If you use the equipment profile for what you are actually using, everything seems to work. There are equipment profiles available for pretty well all the all in one systems in the add ins.
 
A hypothetical: I want to have a bit of extra sparge water--perhaps a gallon. I also want to heat all my water, plus the extra, and have the total salt concentrations match the target profile.

Using the "Water Profile Tool", I could plug in the total water I need, add the total salts to the total water, then add mash water, then sparge water, then any extra water as I go, per the numbers the mash tab gives.

Seems a good use of the Water Profile Tool, as it avoids having to add up individual salt totals from the mash/sparge lines in the water profile tab. Thoughts?
 
A hypothetical: I want to have a bit of extra sparge water--perhaps a gallon. I also want to heat all my water, plus the extra, and have the total salt concentrations match the target profile.

Using the "Water Profile Tool", I could plug in the total water I need, add the total salts to the total water, then add mash water, then sparge water, then any extra water as I go, per the numbers the mash tab gives.

Seems a good use of the Water Profile Tool, as it avoids having to add up individual salt totals from the mash/sparge lines in the water profile tab. Thoughts?
Sounds good. Treat all your water the same way. Act as though you are drawing water from a source that has the mineral profile you desire.

--GF
 
That's kinda what I do. I found if you save your salts to the water profile you are using. Add your total water to the recipe and check the box to include salts, it will do just that - give you the total salts rather than splitting it out. I heat the whole lot up in the kettle then remove spare water/ spare to a separate kettle.
 
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