These numbers seem ok?

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I am not sure why you decided to post images when you can cut & paste the text.

Then we'd be able to actually read it.

Well sick with the flu and am in bed now bored. I bought ingredients for a recipie the other day and I'm just staring at them right now. Today would be the best day to brew I'm off work and it's really nice out for the first time in a week. Anyways I'm new to brewing software and all. I have two brews under my belt one in secondary and one in bottles but still have not tried either. Is there anything I should know about making this beer? I'll post recipe in a few. I'm nit good at figuring out the water situation for mash and batch sparge. I'll just have to figure that one out I guess. But I plan on just letting it sit in primary for a month and then bottle. Can you add extra orange peel? Or will it be to much?

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4lbs flacked wheat
4.0 lbs pilsner
12oz Vienna
Saaz Czech pellets 1 oz @ 60 min
Coriander seed 1 oz @ 5 min
Sweet orange peel .5 oz @ 5 min
1 lbs rice hulls
Yeast is white labs belgin wit

Og 1.044-1.052

Fg 1.008-1.012

Mash at 154 for 60 mins if possible a step rest of 15 mins @ 122 f

Boil for 90 mins

Ferment @ 68- 75 starting low and raising high over time.

I have a ten gallon boil pot and a 42 quart cooler. I batch sparge

Does this sound okay? : total water 8.30 gallons

Mash 3.10 gallons
Sparge 5.20

It's definitely in the ball park. Depends on how much you lose to dead space in the mash tun and what your boil off rate is. You numbers are a little on the high side for my set up. I usually shoot for around 6.5 gallons in the BK. You should end up with somewhere just over 7 gallons unless you are losing more wort to dead space.

Yea I don't know what the boil off rate is never checked. If I got it to 6 gallons I'd be happy

Can you boil 7 gallons to 6 over time?

Or sparge w one less gallon?

benzy4010 said:

Can you boil 7 gallons to 6 over time?

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With most kettles your boil off rate would be in the ballpark of a gallon per hour, so you'll drop from 7 to 6 gallons over an hour long boil anyway.

What does a longer boil do? So say sited of 90 a 120 min or more?

I posted in your other thread re:boil time.

You could adjust your grain and water amounts down using ratios as another option.

...5/7ths of everything.