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Gremlyn · 05-17-2009, 12:14 AM

Well, maybe... I am getting ready to brew a Pete's Wicked Ale Clone and have everything entered into BeerSmith. I think I have my equipment profile set up properly and I selected single infusion batch sparge. The software knows (supposedly) that I have a 4 gallon brew pot, but it is telling me to use 7.19 qts of water for mash and then 2.39 gallons for sparge, but I can't boil all of that! What am I missing? I am doing a PM with 5.75 lbs of grain. I could do this with two pots (I have a 4 gal and a 3 gal), anyone know how to set that up in BeerSmith?

***Yooper*** · 05-17-2009, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Gremlyn1

Well, maybe... I am getting ready to brew a Pete's Wicked Ale Clone and have everything entered into BeerSmith. I think I have my equipment profile set up properly and I selected single infusion batch sparge. The software knows (supposedly) that I have a 4 gallon brew pot, but it is telling me to use 7.19 qts of water for mash and then 2.39 gallons for sparge, but I can't boil all of that! What am I missing? I am doing a PM with 5.75 lbs of grain. I could do this with two pots (I have a 4 gal and a 3 gal), anyone know how to set that up in BeerSmith?

Hmmm. Can you post the BSM file here, and see if I can take a look and check the settings? (click on that recipe, and then go to "file, export as...." and export it. Then, post it back here, by clicking the paperclip and attaching it. It's easier than it sounds).

What size boil do you have on the main recipe page?

chumprock · 05-17-2009, 12:44 AM

Dead space, grain absorption, or other factors in your equipment that makes for a liquid loss? I'm counting a little over 7 qts for mash, and a little under 10 quarts for sparge..

It's cutting it close, but I wonder if the loss is being calculated to give you those volumes.

Gremlyn · 05-17-2009, 08:21 AM

Don't seem to be able to export, assuming that's because I'm on the trial version.

***Yooper*** · 05-17-2009, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Gremlyn1

Don't seem to be able to export, assuming that's because I'm on the trial version.

Ok. Check the very front page, back on the recipe, where you can put in the "batch size" and the "boil size". make sure you have the correct boil size there. That should fix it.

Gremlyn · 05-17-2009, 05:44 PM

Looks like my boil is indeed set to 3.25 gal, so then their numbers should be right to get me there then?

***Yooper*** · 05-17-2009, 06:58 PM

I don't know. Click on "preview brewsheet" and see what it says. That will have step by step instructions, including volume.

Gremlyn · 05-17-2009, 07:46 PM

Hmm, yeah looks like it might just be attributing a lot of it to losses. Guess there is only one way to find out

**Whiskey** · 05-18-2009, 12:52 AM

I use BTP and that sounds about right. My last PM batch I had 2.03 gallons of strike water(8.12 qts), I had first runnings of a little less then one gallon.

Mash in, wait one hour, get your first runnings, and then sparge. I used 2.6 gallons split between two sparges.

Your grain will soak up a whole lot of that strike water.

Check out Bobby_M's "BTP How to" videos here....

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f84/btp-mac-mash-set-up-117415/

**Hang Glider** · 05-18-2009, 01:42 AM

+1 for Grain absorption
Total water according to OP is 4.187 gal.
you'll likely lose close to 1 gal to the grains.