weremichael
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Greetings,
I just switched over to BeerSmith as my homebrew app. and I have a question about the Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge Mash Profile. I brew with a ten gallon round cooler with a copper manifold that acts as my mash/lauter tun. My brew pot is a ten gallon stainless pot.
The way that the profile is set up is 1.25 quarts of water per pound of grain and it calculates proper temperature for the mash. I am using the default settings which are "Batch Sparge using batches that fill 90% of the mash tun volume" and "Sparge using equal size batches." The Sparge Water Temp is set to 168 F.
On an IPA that I brew using 13.35 lbs of grain it tells me to add 16.69 qts of water and mash for an hour. Then it tells me to Sparge with 1.43 gal of 168 F water. Am I supposed to add the 1.43 gal of water to the mash and then sparge?? I also don't see a way to have BeerSmith calculate the correct temperature of the sparge water to take the mash from 154 to 168. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
The second Sparge Round is 4 gallons of 168 F water. That part makes sense.
Thanks for helping me out,
Michael
I just switched over to BeerSmith as my homebrew app. and I have a question about the Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge Mash Profile. I brew with a ten gallon round cooler with a copper manifold that acts as my mash/lauter tun. My brew pot is a ten gallon stainless pot.
The way that the profile is set up is 1.25 quarts of water per pound of grain and it calculates proper temperature for the mash. I am using the default settings which are "Batch Sparge using batches that fill 90% of the mash tun volume" and "Sparge using equal size batches." The Sparge Water Temp is set to 168 F.
On an IPA that I brew using 13.35 lbs of grain it tells me to add 16.69 qts of water and mash for an hour. Then it tells me to Sparge with 1.43 gal of 168 F water. Am I supposed to add the 1.43 gal of water to the mash and then sparge?? I also don't see a way to have BeerSmith calculate the correct temperature of the sparge water to take the mash from 154 to 168. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
The second Sparge Round is 4 gallons of 168 F water. That part makes sense.
Thanks for helping me out,
Michael