help please

[Dixon]

Can anyone help a noob with some soarge help? For my first all grain I am brewing the summer saison from Austin Homebrew. The grain bill is:

8.5 lbs Belgian pilsner
2 lb flaked wheat
2 lb white wheat
1/2 lb aromatic malt

Now the instructions that came with the kit call for fly sparging but I am only set up for batch sparge. If I mash at 1.25 gal/lb how much sparge water will I need to get a boil size of 6.25 gal?

 

[BendBrewer]

There's an app for that.

 

[stanley1271]

http://www.brew365.com/mash_sparge_water_calculator.php

 

[BendBrewer]

And it is quarts per pound, unless you are mashing in a pool.

To answer your questions though, about 4 gallons to sparge.

 

[Dixon]

Actually had that app. Dumb enough not to understand how to use it.

 

[Dixon]

And it is quarts per pound, unless you are mashing in a pool.

To answer your questions though, about 4 gallons to sparge.

Qts is what I meant....thanks

 

[BainbridgeBrewer]

I think you want 1.25 QUARTS / lb. 13lbs of grain X 1.25 qt / lbs = 16.25 qt / 4 qt per gallon= 4.06 gallons for mash. Figure about 1 gallon lost to grain absorption for every 10lbs of grain, and you should get about 2.75 gallons in your first runnings. I batch sparge and would figure the sparge amount by subtracting your overall beginning boil amount (6.25 gal) - the first runnings already in the kettle (2.75 gal) = about 3.5 gallons for sparge.

Howtobrew.com should be able to walk you through a lot of that, you can also give beersmith a free shot for 21 days. They are about to release a new version of beersmith though so keep that in mind before buying the whole version.

 

[BendBrewer]

Actually had that app. Dumb enough not to understand how to use it.

If you are talking about Brewzor, just go to Brewing Calculators and then Batch Sparge.

 

[janivar123]

For me the grain keep a bit more then its weight in water
sorry bout the metric 6 kg malt absorb 6 litre(6kg)water
so to get 25l i need 31l total

Now you dont have my exact setup and dont do it exactly the same so you note the difference this time and you might be spot on for next brew

 

[beerkrump]

Measure the volume of your initial runnings and subtract that from 6.25.