The water needed tool closely matches the internal calculations used for estimating water needed within a recipe. To use the water needed tool, you need to enter many of the same details contained an equipment profile.
Using the Water Needed Tool
| o | Select the Water Needed Tool from the Tools menu or ribbon. |
| o | At the top select the brew type - if doing an extract brew the mash portion of this dialog will be greyed out as you don't need to mash for an extract beer. |
| o | Below the brew type, the total water needed for brewing the beer is displayed |
| o | In the Mash section, you can enter the mash water volume (amount you are adding during the mash), total grain weight, lauter tun deadspace and top up water for the kettle. The calculator will show the amount of water absorbed by the grain (grain absorption) and the total sparge water needed. |
| o | For boil and fermentation, enter you boil losses (for evaporation), losses to trub/chiller, cooling loss (typically 4%), top up water and volume into the fermenter. You can also include fermentation losses if desired. |
| o | The calculator will show your start of boil volume, boil off percentage, cooling losses and volume at bottling. |
