ahefner33
Well-Known Member
Hey,
I'm approaching my first all grain attempt and I am basically just going over everything before hand just to get all the numbers right so I'll know what to expect come brew day. I am little confused however on the water temps for the mash and sparges given from the actual recipe I am using and what BeerSmith2 is telling me.
The recipe from Austin HB says I need to heat to an infusion water temp of 170 to reach a mash temp of 150.
But when I plug in everything into beersmith2 and using the common 152 mash temp as the setting, it says I need to heat my infusion water to 163.7. Beersmith2 also tells me to sparge at 168 while the recipes calls for sparge temp at 175.
I know this is all pretty small but I dont want to get into the process and realize I need to keep adding extra heated water to get my temps up for the mash process but also a little confused on why the differences in the numbers given.
BTW this is a cream ale so thats the profile I have selected also.
thanks in advance
I'm approaching my first all grain attempt and I am basically just going over everything before hand just to get all the numbers right so I'll know what to expect come brew day. I am little confused however on the water temps for the mash and sparges given from the actual recipe I am using and what BeerSmith2 is telling me.
The recipe from Austin HB says I need to heat to an infusion water temp of 170 to reach a mash temp of 150.
But when I plug in everything into beersmith2 and using the common 152 mash temp as the setting, it says I need to heat my infusion water to 163.7. Beersmith2 also tells me to sparge at 168 while the recipes calls for sparge temp at 175.
I know this is all pretty small but I dont want to get into the process and realize I need to keep adding extra heated water to get my temps up for the mash process but also a little confused on why the differences in the numbers given.
BTW this is a cream ale so thats the profile I have selected also.
thanks in advance