I'm getting ready to brew my first 10 gallon batch on Saturday. I'm making a maple syrup/mollasses marzen and ale. The first fermentor gets Irish ale yeast, the second fermentor gets Marzen lager yeast, thus 2 "different" kinds of beer.
I was planning on making it an 11 gallon batch, so each fermentor would get about 5.5 gallons to account for losses. The problem is BeerSmith is calculating I'll have an estimated pre-boil volume of 14.48 gallons...which only leaves 1 gallon of extra space in my stainless keggle. What should I do? That seems like an awful lot of pre-boil volume. I know I'm not going to boil off 3.5 gallons...I'm not even sure how it is coming up with these numbers. Any thoughts?
I was planning on making it an 11 gallon batch, so each fermentor would get about 5.5 gallons to account for losses. The problem is BeerSmith is calculating I'll have an estimated pre-boil volume of 14.48 gallons...which only leaves 1 gallon of extra space in my stainless keggle. What should I do? That seems like an awful lot of pre-boil volume. I know I'm not going to boil off 3.5 gallons...I'm not even sure how it is coming up with these numbers. Any thoughts?