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So I'm trying to perfect a recipe, and I've got five slightly different takes on the hop profile that I'm working on. (Some involve FWH, others don't, different IBU ratings, etc.) Since I want to have them side by side to blind compare I have to do them at the same time, but I've no need for 25 gallons of essentially the same beer all at once.
I came up with the idea of doing small growler batches (approximately one gallon each) and used BeerSmith to come up with the recipes.
Now to the question. BeerSmith doesn't really say anything about how long to sparge for, just the volume to sparge with. I've sparged for up to an hour on bigger batches, but it seems like I'd be running water after that long (with a trickle of a flow.) Should I just keep track of the OG coming out of my lauter tun and stop sparging like Palmer recommends, at about 1.008 or whenever I run out of sparge water (according to the volumes set up by BeerSmith?)
Anyways, first time poster on the forums. Been reading a lot, figured it was time to join the community.
Here's to a good quaff.
Kyle
I came up with the idea of doing small growler batches (approximately one gallon each) and used BeerSmith to come up with the recipes.
Now to the question. BeerSmith doesn't really say anything about how long to sparge for, just the volume to sparge with. I've sparged for up to an hour on bigger batches, but it seems like I'd be running water after that long (with a trickle of a flow.) Should I just keep track of the OG coming out of my lauter tun and stop sparging like Palmer recommends, at about 1.008 or whenever I run out of sparge water (according to the volumes set up by BeerSmith?)
Anyways, first time poster on the forums. Been reading a lot, figured it was time to join the community.
Here's to a good quaff.
Kyle