Hi all. I've been using both BrunWater (1.25) and Mash Made Easy (10.30) for quite some time now. For any given recipe so far they've come in within 0.1 pH of each other. The measured pH of my mash about 50 minutes in is usually right at the average between the two predictions. In other words, I both love and depend on these two spreadsheets.
This weekend's beer will be a Belgian Wit. The mashbill is 50% Pilsner, 33% Flaked Wheat, 10% Red Wheat Malt, 5% Flaked Oats, and 2% Carapils. After my usual addition of small amounts of gypsum, Calcium Chloride, and Epsom I got predictions of 5.39 from BrunWater and 5.84 from MME. I've never seen that much of a difference between the two before. I'm assuming it is the high percentage of flaked grains causing the problem.
Has anyone else run into this? Would the flaked grains cause that much higher of a pH?
Thanks,
Dan
This weekend's beer will be a Belgian Wit. The mashbill is 50% Pilsner, 33% Flaked Wheat, 10% Red Wheat Malt, 5% Flaked Oats, and 2% Carapils. After my usual addition of small amounts of gypsum, Calcium Chloride, and Epsom I got predictions of 5.39 from BrunWater and 5.84 from MME. I've never seen that much of a difference between the two before. I'm assuming it is the high percentage of flaked grains causing the problem.
Has anyone else run into this? Would the flaked grains cause that much higher of a pH?
Thanks,
Dan