Adjusting BeerSmith to acomodate for Cold Steeping Dark Grains

[indianajns]

Decided to Cold steep my Dark grains via the method outlined by Strong where you steep your grains in room temp water, 2 qts of water to 1lb of grain. I'll add the water after filtering out the grains with ~15 minutes left in the boil. I have about 4 lbs of dark grains in my recipe for a 12 gallon batch so I will be adding 2 gallons of the steeped water at the end of my boil. I'm having trouble figuring out how to adjust BeerSmith using this method. Would I just enter the recipe without the dark grains and instead of the batch size being 12 I would enter 10? Thoughts?

 

[BobBailey]

I add the dark grains to the MLT just before sparging. I just mark them in Beersmith as "Add after boil" so it isn't figured into the mash calculation. Doing it this way you don't need to play around with water calculations either.

If you choose to cold steep I would mark the grain the same way and subtract the wort you get from steeping from your spargel water needs.

Either way, to mark the grain just double click on it and Beersmith will take you to a page with the info for that grain.

 

[indianajns]

If you choose to cold steep I would mark the grain the same way and subtract the wort you get from steeping from your spargel water needs.

DOH! I should have thought of this! Appreciate the reply Bob!:rockin: