BIAB Water additons in general and in BeerSmith.

[BitterSweetBrews]

I have BeerSmith 3 and have tried to use the water profiler in the recipe creation tools. I have a BIAB profile and it works fine for the brewing process. But, when I try to use the water tab in recipe creation to add water salts to my RO (distilled) base water it splits them into Strike and Sparge portions. This is opposite what I need for BIAB. I have recently tried Brown Balanced and Brown Full (I am brewing a Wee Heavy)

Does anyone know what can I do so that it only adds salts in the beginning, since I am not sparging.

Also, how should I change the salt additions for BIAB where there will only be one salt addition? What kinds of modification should be made?

 

[Oginme]

If BeerSmith is splitting the salts into mash and sparge additions, then you do not have it set up to do a full volume BIAB. In your mash profile, there is a box to tell the program that you are conducting a BIAB mash, which to the program defaults to full volume mash.

If you are conducting a sparge, then do not set up your mash using a BIAB profile, but use a standard mash with sparge profile, If you do this, you will need to modify the salt additions to add them all to the mash step manually.

 

[BitterSweetBrews]

If BeerSmith is splitting the salts into mash and sparge additions, then you do not have it set up to do a full volume BIAB. In your mash profile, there is a box to tell the program that you are conducting a BIAB mash, which to the program defaults to full volume mash.

If you are conducting a sparge, then do not set up your mash using a BIAB profile, but use a standard mash with sparge profile, If you do this, you will need to modify the salt additions to add them all to the mash step manually.

Thanks, you are absolutely correct. I had medium body, not medium body BIAB.

Sometimes it's the simple things that get you.

After looking at a recipe for an hour it's easy to skip something. I guess I need an error check that says if your equipment profile is BIAB then your mash s/b, LOL.

Cheers!