vitaminb
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Hi everyone,
I'm brand new to the forum and fairly new to brewing. I primarily brew all grain and have been mostly keeping to 1 gallon batches until I get the hang of it.
I've been using beersmith to keep track of my batches and also to convert larger batches down to 1 gallon.
The thing that's been confusing me is that when I use the beersmith converter sometimes it puts my pre-boil water volume way higher than I'm sure it should be. For example, I entered the below (from basicbrewing.com) recipe into beersmith and tried to convert and it says I should have a pre-boil volume of 2.36 gallons. That can't be right, can it? When I did recipes before I'd pretty much stick to a quart of water per pound of grain during mash, then add about a gallon of water before boiling. That would give me around 1.25 gallons which would boil down to 1 gallon.
What am I missing here?
11 lbsPremium 2-Row Malt; Great Western
.7 ozCascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
.7 ozCascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 39 min
.7 ozCascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min
White Labs WLP013 London Ale
Notes
Mash at 148 deg for 1 hr. Sparge at 170 deg to collect 6 gallons. Follow hop schedule for 1/3 additions. Original recipe was around 28 to 32 IBU's. A simple yet complex drinkable beer that started the craft brewing craze we enjoy today. You can listen to Jack McAuliffe share his recipe on Basicbrewing.com.
Enjoy and Cheers to Jack!
I'm brand new to the forum and fairly new to brewing. I primarily brew all grain and have been mostly keeping to 1 gallon batches until I get the hang of it.
I've been using beersmith to keep track of my batches and also to convert larger batches down to 1 gallon.
The thing that's been confusing me is that when I use the beersmith converter sometimes it puts my pre-boil water volume way higher than I'm sure it should be. For example, I entered the below (from basicbrewing.com) recipe into beersmith and tried to convert and it says I should have a pre-boil volume of 2.36 gallons. That can't be right, can it? When I did recipes before I'd pretty much stick to a quart of water per pound of grain during mash, then add about a gallon of water before boiling. That would give me around 1.25 gallons which would boil down to 1 gallon.
What am I missing here?
11 lbsPremium 2-Row Malt; Great Western
.7 ozCascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
.7 ozCascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 39 min
.7 ozCascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min
White Labs WLP013 London Ale
Notes
Mash at 148 deg for 1 hr. Sparge at 170 deg to collect 6 gallons. Follow hop schedule for 1/3 additions. Original recipe was around 28 to 32 IBU's. A simple yet complex drinkable beer that started the craft brewing craze we enjoy today. You can listen to Jack McAuliffe share his recipe on Basicbrewing.com.
Enjoy and Cheers to Jack!