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I guess what I'm trying to describe: Say I mash with three gallons in the mash tun plus the extra liquid in the hosing/HERMS coil. When I switch over to lautering, I now take water from HLT, but for some of the duration of the sparge process, the wort left over in the pump/hoses/HERMS coil...

This is something that has been concerning me a bit. I just built a HERMS system. Quick, basic information: the HLT/Mash/BK are all 42qt pots. Inside of the HLT I have a 40 foot long 1/2 inch copper coil. When I want to start my mash, to get my water to grist ratio, I need about three...

I've considered adding some LME to the fermenting beer. I've seen on other posts that this is acceptable. However, I'm more likely going to just let it go and see how it turns out.

That answers my question well. Thanks all. I unfortunately forgot the BTUs of my burner, and this time around I made a 6 gallon batch instead of what I'm used to doing, 5 gallons. I misjudged how much water would boil off. I think I'll figure out the variables as I do it a few more times.

Here's a question that came from performing my first all-grain batch this last Sunday: Perhaps my mash efficiency was low, or perhaps I had an inaccurate measure of water that I collected for the boil, but when I was finished boiling (per my hops schedule), I found my OG to be a little lower...