LiverDance
Active Member
Ok, so this is a question for those of you who make imperial beers. I'm making an Imperial Schwarzbier (10 gallons, 42.1lbs of grain) at 1.098 OG and when i plug this into Beersmith I'm mashing with 13.8 gallons. With that it only leaves 4 gallons to sparge with to hit my boil volume. I can't help but think that this is going to result in a loss of efficiency and it isn't even enough sparge water to raise the grain bed to 168df. Is there methods you guys use to get around this? I've never done a beer this big so any advice is appreiciated.
Cheers,
LD
Cheers,
LD