I tried posting on the Beersmith Forums, but they seem pretty empty as far as help for newbs go.
I brew a batch of beer. Ambient temp is 80*F i use 12.75# grains. I use 14 qts of 173*F strike water and hit 152*.
I want to use those numbers to set up Beersmith 2.
I watched the video tutorials on equipemnt setup on the Beersmith support page, but ended up with my recipe telling me to use 165*F water.
I figure I need to tweak something called mash tun specific heat to dial in for my temperature adjustment?
So I open the Infusion Tool and punch in my numbers and tweak the specific heat until I get 173* strike water temp, BUT when I try to use that number in my equipment profile the strike temperature is completely different. Shouldn't I be able to use the Infusion tool to calibrate my equipment?
Here is my numbers;
Settings for infusion tool:
Calculation: Initial Strike
Target: 152
water to add: 14qt
Initial mash temp 80
grain weight: 12.75
mash tun weight 5
mash tun specific heat 0.83
infusion water temperature: 174.2
settings for My Equipment:
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Mash Volume: 12.00 gal
Boil Volume: 5.70 gal
Mash Tun Weight: 5 lbs
Evaporation Rate: 8.8 % Mash Tun Specific Heat: 1.76 cal/g-deg C
Boil Time: 60 Mash Tun Deadspace: 0.00 gal
Top-up for Boiler: 0.00 gal Equip Hop Utilization: 100.00 %
Losses to Trub/Chiller: 0.00 gal Cooling Loss (%): 4.00
Top up water for Fermenter: 0.00 gal
Mash Profile:
Single Infusion, Light Body Batch Sparge
grain temp, mash tun temp: 80
Mash steps: Mash In Add 14qt water @ 174.1 step temp 152 for 60minutes
adjust temp for equip = yes
my recipe
12.75 lbs of grain
Should I just go with the 1.76 in my equipment profile and trust everything will turn out ok ?? I wonder if it could be as simple as the equipment profile takes into account mash tun volume and the infusion tool does not?
I brew a batch of beer. Ambient temp is 80*F i use 12.75# grains. I use 14 qts of 173*F strike water and hit 152*.
I want to use those numbers to set up Beersmith 2.
I watched the video tutorials on equipemnt setup on the Beersmith support page, but ended up with my recipe telling me to use 165*F water.
I figure I need to tweak something called mash tun specific heat to dial in for my temperature adjustment?
So I open the Infusion Tool and punch in my numbers and tweak the specific heat until I get 173* strike water temp, BUT when I try to use that number in my equipment profile the strike temperature is completely different. Shouldn't I be able to use the Infusion tool to calibrate my equipment?
Here is my numbers;
Settings for infusion tool:
Calculation: Initial Strike
Target: 152
water to add: 14qt
Initial mash temp 80
grain weight: 12.75
mash tun weight 5
mash tun specific heat 0.83
infusion water temperature: 174.2
settings for My Equipment:
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Mash Volume: 12.00 gal
Boil Volume: 5.70 gal
Mash Tun Weight: 5 lbs
Evaporation Rate: 8.8 % Mash Tun Specific Heat: 1.76 cal/g-deg C
Boil Time: 60 Mash Tun Deadspace: 0.00 gal
Top-up for Boiler: 0.00 gal Equip Hop Utilization: 100.00 %
Losses to Trub/Chiller: 0.00 gal Cooling Loss (%): 4.00
Top up water for Fermenter: 0.00 gal
Mash Profile:
Single Infusion, Light Body Batch Sparge
grain temp, mash tun temp: 80
Mash steps: Mash In Add 14qt water @ 174.1 step temp 152 for 60minutes
adjust temp for equip = yes
my recipe
12.75 lbs of grain
Should I just go with the 1.76 in my equipment profile and trust everything will turn out ok ?? I wonder if it could be as simple as the equipment profile takes into account mash tun volume and the infusion tool does not?