msppilot
Well-Known Member
Ok, I am going to attempt my second all grain and just have a few questions. My first one did not go as planed, but I believe that was because I had too much mash water. After the batch sparge I still had liquid left in my mash tun and no room left in my boil kettle. I am hoping not to repeat my mistake and when I plug my recipe into beer smith it calls for 20.86qts of water for the mash and a 2 step batch sparge of .86 gal and 4.37 gal. This seems high to me. I will have about 14lbs of grain and a 90 minute boil. I am using 1.25 qts per pound and don't probably don't want to go any lower than that. What are others thought on this. Also, in the mash tab of beer smith it is giving me the quantity in quarts. Does anyone know how to change that to gal? The sparge steps is given in gal and i would like to keep it consistent.