on Brewheads.com - Homepage for their batch sparge calculator, i am using 0.125/lb grain to calculate how many gallons of water i need for the second runnings and it comes up with a massive number, like 45 gallons of water? whats with that?
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if it helps I think each pound of grain absorbs .2 gallons of water from the mash.
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Maybe I'm missing something here, for second runnings, the grain is already saturated, you should simply get your sparge volume back out of the mash tun.
damn, ok i was multiplying my grain mass by .2 and putting that in the "grain absorption" block haha. ok. i understand now. just put .2 in the block instead of my other calc. hah. damn.
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Maybe I'm missing something here, for second runnings, the grain is already saturated, you should simply get your sparge volume back out of the mash tun.
bah you're right, I misread the post...was thinking strike water not sparge.
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Primary: English Mild
On tap: Pale Ale, Lancelot's Wheat, English Brown Ale, Steam Beer, HoovNuts IPA
Bottled: MOAM, Braggot, Raspberry Melomel, Merlot, Apfelwein, Pyment, Sweet mead, Cabernet
Gal in 2009: 27, Gal in 2010: 34, Gal in 2011: 13, Gal in 2012: 10
grain absorption?
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