NickThoR
Well-Known Member
I'm doing my first partial mash and need to know how much water to sparge with...
3# grain
3# dme
5 gallon batch doing partial boil
my plan is to mash with 1 gallon water(1.33*3#=1 gallon and losing .15*3=.45), steep/sparge in 1 gallon of water for ten minutes, then steep sparge with the rest of my water in the brew kettle(the rest of my water ~2 gallons (for a total of .55+1+2=~3.5 for the total boil). then topping off in the fermenter to 5 gallons.
Is this amount of water ok? Will this make to many tannins?Am i obsessing to much? I wanna get all the goodness out of the grains i can by 'two batch sparges'(what i was told this is), but i dont wanna use to much water and get tannins.....
3# grain
3# dme
5 gallon batch doing partial boil
my plan is to mash with 1 gallon water(1.33*3#=1 gallon and losing .15*3=.45), steep/sparge in 1 gallon of water for ten minutes, then steep sparge with the rest of my water in the brew kettle(the rest of my water ~2 gallons (for a total of .55+1+2=~3.5 for the total boil). then topping off in the fermenter to 5 gallons.
Is this amount of water ok? Will this make to many tannins?Am i obsessing to much? I wanna get all the goodness out of the grains i can by 'two batch sparges'(what i was told this is), but i dont wanna use to much water and get tannins.....