goaliemanpat
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So I am ordering the ingredients to do my first brew moving to All-Grain. I picked up Beersmith and have been poking around in it. I plan on doing this recipe Fizzy Yellow. Now when I am inputing the recipe into Beersmith and setting the equipment profile I come to lauter dead space. I understand this is the amount left at the bottom that cant get pulled out. I tested my setup (Igloo with toilet line) and it left almost 1/2 gallon in the bottom. This seems like a lot. Will it be less when its full of grain? My main question is it easier just to scale the recipe to 5.5 or 5.25 gallons so I have some extra wort to account for that lost at the bottom and just pull out enough to cover that 5 gallons? If not would tilting the tun with a piece of wood before the vorlauf hurt anything?
Thanks for any input. Looking forward to this brew.
Thanks for any input. Looking forward to this brew.