I'm hoping to brew my first batch of AG this weekend but I have a question about the mash and how much water to add.
I plan to do batch sparging with a single infusion mash. I found a recipe here:
www.beertools.com/html/recipe.php?view=2521 that I'd like to try.
After reading this:
home.elp.rr.com/brewbeer/files/nbsparge.html
and using this spreadsheet:
home.elp.rr.com/brewbeer/files/nbsparge.xls
I calculate I'll need a mash thickness of 0.367. That would be ~1.5 pints/lb of water for the mash. That seems extremely high. Ken Schwartz's site recommends a "normal thickness less than or equal to R" and then add water just before the first runoff to get up to R.
How do I know what a normal mash thickness should be for this recipe?
I plan to do batch sparging with a single infusion mash. I found a recipe here:
www.beertools.com/html/recipe.php?view=2521 that I'd like to try.
After reading this:
home.elp.rr.com/brewbeer/files/nbsparge.html
and using this spreadsheet:
home.elp.rr.com/brewbeer/files/nbsparge.xls
I calculate I'll need a mash thickness of 0.367. That would be ~1.5 pints/lb of water for the mash. That seems extremely high. Ken Schwartz's site recommends a "normal thickness less than or equal to R" and then add water just before the first runoff to get up to R.
How do I know what a normal mash thickness should be for this recipe?