beersmith problem

[payton34]

something aint right. i punched in a recipe for a ten gallon batch of wheat ipa with a 24 pound grain bill along with 2 pounds of rice hulls. beersmith said too use 32.5 qts strike water.(seemed right) then it said to sparge with 12.79 gallons to get 12.55 gallons pre boil. wtf.

 

[CCericola]

something aint right. i punched in a recipe for a ten gallon batch of wheat ipa with a 24 pound grain bill along with 2 pounds of rice hulls. beersmith said too use 32.5 qts strike water.(seemed right) then it said to sparge with 12.79 gallons to get 12.55 gallons pre boil. wtf.

That does seem high. Is your equipment configured with a lot of dead space?

 

[Musky01]

said to sparge with 12.79 gallons to get 12.55 gallons pre boil. wtf.

Wow, that's more then a bad equipment profile.. No idea but got a laugh from it

Must have bought some really thirsty grain. It will absorb all of your mash water plus a quart of the sparge?

I've never had luck using the mash calculator on beer smith

 

[payton34]

no i am probably missing some data input somewhere. i have a sightglass on my brew kettle so i just fly sparged until i got my boil amounts. just wondered if there was something i messed up. all my other recipes turn out right