Hi there!
This is my first venture into the forums here. I'm used to having a really well-versed homebrew partner but recently moved away and am now flying solo. I've got a pretty simple APA in line for Friday, and after putting the recipe into BeerSmith, I'm getting some weird numbers I need to figure out. It's a small 2.5 gallon batch with 5.75 lb of grain, and the program is calling for over 12 gallons of water between a single infusion mash and batch sparge set up. This is almost triple the water it's called for in the past, and I've been getting decent results. What gives? This can't be right, can it? My only idea right now is that I've never messed with some of the more specific numbers in the program, like "tun deadspace" for example.
Any experts with a clue as to why this number is off or why this number is actually correct?
Thanks guys,
Chris
This is my first venture into the forums here. I'm used to having a really well-versed homebrew partner but recently moved away and am now flying solo. I've got a pretty simple APA in line for Friday, and after putting the recipe into BeerSmith, I'm getting some weird numbers I need to figure out. It's a small 2.5 gallon batch with 5.75 lb of grain, and the program is calling for over 12 gallons of water between a single infusion mash and batch sparge set up. This is almost triple the water it's called for in the past, and I've been getting decent results. What gives? This can't be right, can it? My only idea right now is that I've never messed with some of the more specific numbers in the program, like "tun deadspace" for example.
Any experts with a clue as to why this number is off or why this number is actually correct?
Thanks guys,
Chris
