New Brewsmith user

[Minjin]

I am trying to set up beersmith....
I selected my profile for equipment as stainless keg

set boil off to 1.25
loss to trub 1 gallon
batch vol: 10 gallon
Ferm Loss: .50 gallon
Boil time: 90 min

I input biermunchers recipe for blonde ale

****10-Gallon Batch****
Batch Size: 11.00 gal
Boil Size: 13.69 gal
Estimated OG: 1.039 SG
Estimated Color: 3.9 SRM
Estimated IBU: 21.6 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
14.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
1.25 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM)
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM)
1.00 lb Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM)
0.50 oz Centennial [9.50%] (55 min)
0.50 oz Centennial [9.50%] (35 min)
0.50 oz Cascade [7.80%] (20 )
0.50 oz Cascade [7.80%] (5 min)
1 Pkgs Nottingham (Danstar #-) (Hydrated)

Questions:
1. So is it a 10 gallon batch or 11?
2. Either way I put it in I believe its calculating too much water....
For the brewing steps it says to mash in with 25.25 qt of water and
Batch sparge with 2.91 gallon and 7.16 gallon for a total of 16.38 gallon.

Sounds way high to me.

 

[Minjin]

And I configured it for 10 gallon in the batch size for the Design page and the batch size in the config for the equipment.

 

[Wingfan13]

I am trying to set up beersmith....
I selected my profile for equipment as stainless keg

set boil off to 1.25
loss to trub 1 gallon
batch vol: 10 gallon
Ferm Loss: .50 gallon
Boil time: 90 min

I input biermunchers recipe for blonde ale

****10-Gallon Batch****
Batch Size: 11.00 gal
Boil Size: 13.69 gal
Estimated OG: 1.039 SG
Estimated Color: 3.9 SRM
Estimated IBU: 21.6 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
14.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
1.25 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM)
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM)
1.00 lb Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM)
0.50 oz Centennial [9.50%] (55 min)
0.50 oz Centennial [9.50%] (35 min)
0.50 oz Cascade [7.80%] (20 )
0.50 oz Cascade [7.80%] (5 min)
1 Pkgs Nottingham (Danstar #-) (Hydrated)

Questions:
1. So is it a 10 gallon batch or 11?
2. Either way I put it in I believe its calculating too much water....
For the brewing steps it says to mash in with 25.25 qt of water and
Batch sparge with 2.91 gallon and 7.16 gallon for a total of 16.38 gallon.

Sounds way high to me.

Did you look at cooling loss and fermenter loss ? It took me a while to get Beersmith setup correctly.

 

[Minjin]

I just left the cooling loss the default.
.46 gallon
Fermenter loss: .50 gallon.

 

[Wingfan13]

11 gallon batch
+1.875 gallon boil off because it is a 90 minute boil
+.32 gran absorption
+1 gallon to trub loss
+.46 to cooling
+.5 to fermenter loss

That is a total of 15.15 gallons. What am I missing ? Mash tun loss/deadspace ?

 

[Minjin]

1 gal for lauter ton deadspace - Question about that.
its a Keggle with a 15" false bottom. the pickup is at the very bottom of the keggle so really there would be no deadspace correct?

 

[Minjin]

So essentially the figures are on correct?

And when I input this into beersmith do I use 10 gallon or 11 gallon?

 

[Wingfan13]

1 gal for lauter ton deadspace - Question about that.
its a Keggle with a 15" false bottom. the pickup is at the very bottom of the keggle so really there would be no deadspace correct?

Yeah, I use a cooler and I put mine at .2 because I tip the cooler carefully to drain most of the wort. I am still adjusting mine with each brew to get it right but I went through the same issues trying to figure out the water volumes.

When you are done draining that keggle is there almost no wort ?

 

[Wingfan13]

So essentially the figures are on correct?

And when I input this into beersmith do I use 10 gallon or 11 gallon?

I believe (and not 100% sure) that the way it works is you say it is a 10 gallon batch. Then Beersmith takes into account all your losses so 10 is going into the fermenter. Someone can correct me if I am wrong.

 

[Minjin]

Good deal. Thanks for the input.