Tomorrow will be my first attempt at a partial mash - BIAB! I'm a little confused about water volumes though, and don't know how much to use for the mash, and whether I add water for the boil to reach my volume or wait until the boil is over and I put it in the primary.
My recipe calls for about 8 lbs of grains, with the addition of 3 lbs of DME for the boil. I'm still learning to use Brewmaster, so don't know if I did it right - it gave me a little over 13 qts for a total volume (mash and sparge combined since I'm doing BIAB). That doesn't seem like all that much water to me for a 5 gallon batch. If it is right and that's the volume I mash in, am I supposed to add water prior to my boil to bring it up to 6.5 gallons or so (assuming boiling off a gallon + in the boil)? Or, do I just boil, then when moving to my primary, add water to bring the volume or gravity to the correct amount?
My extract kits alwasy just have me add the extra water to the primary, but I don' t know if that's the ideal, or if it's just the easy way to write an extract recipe for a kit.
My recipe calls for about 8 lbs of grains, with the addition of 3 lbs of DME for the boil. I'm still learning to use Brewmaster, so don't know if I did it right - it gave me a little over 13 qts for a total volume (mash and sparge combined since I'm doing BIAB). That doesn't seem like all that much water to me for a 5 gallon batch. If it is right and that's the volume I mash in, am I supposed to add water prior to my boil to bring it up to 6.5 gallons or so (assuming boiling off a gallon + in the boil)? Or, do I just boil, then when moving to my primary, add water to bring the volume or gravity to the correct amount?
My extract kits alwasy just have me add the extra water to the primary, but I don' t know if that's the ideal, or if it's just the easy way to write an extract recipe for a kit.