Single infusion mash

[Ijp11]

could someone describe how much water i should use to sparge a 5 gallon batch/describe the all grain process.

 

[thekraken]

We'll need more details. How many pounds of grain? What's your desired water/grain ratio? What's your boiloff rate? How long is your boil? What are your mash tun losses?

 

[JimRausch]

Too much info. to cover in one post. You need to do some research. Start with J.P.'s 'How to Brew', then spend way too much time scrolling and searching on this (and others)forum. When you understand the process, then we can help out a little better.

 

[Ijp11]

well a 5 gallon desired batch with a grain bill of roughly 12 pounds at 152 for 1 hour.
single infusion mash, sparge water ?,

 

[Jim311]

Sparging is really just rinsing residual sugars out of the grain after you've finished mashing. There's a lot of sugar left in the grain after you've drained away the wort, so some people want to get it out by sparging. If you want to go all grain in a very simple fashion, you can choose to mash without even bothering to sparge. Your efficiency may take a hit, but you can compensate by using a little more grain in your recipes. If you're an extract brewer considering going all grain, the "brew in a bag" process is about as simple as it gets, with minimal extra gear necessary outside of a big pot.

 

[Ijp11]

Thanks

 

[thekraken]

So you want 5 gallons into the fermenter.

Total water = 5 + trub losses + chiller losses + evaporation losses + mash tun losses
trub losses = ?
chiller losses = ?
evaporation losses = ? your evaporation rate * length of boil
mash tun losses = ? dead space of your mash tun

Total water = strike vol + sparge vol
strike vol = water/grain ratio you want * your grain bill
spage vol = total water - strike vol

Or something like that... As you can see there are a lot of variables here that are dependent on your system. If you check out brewing software like beersmith it will handle all these calculations for you.

 

[bucketnative]

Go to http://www.dennybrew.com - excellent all-grain tutorial.

 

[MrBJones]

Get the BrewSmith software. Tell it the grain bill and other ingredients, and the batch size, and it'll tell you how much water to use - both mash and sparge - and the temperature it should be. Heck, it'll even tell you what temp to heat mash water so that when you put the room temp grains in, the resulting mash temp will be right what you need.

 

[TBC27]

Go to http://www.dennybrew.com - excellent all-grain tutorial.

+1 on this

 

[Ijp11]

Thanks