zoned_post_meridiem
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I'll start by saying that I'm fairly new at this -- if the answer is obvious, apologies in advance.
I got into brewing because I enjoy tweaking recipes, and so I've been playing around with Beersmith with some recipe ideas after just a few extract/kit batches under my belt. Overall, I'm getting the hang of it, except for one thing: the 'Total Water Needed' number under the 'Vols' tab, which is consistently over a gallon higher than what I think it should be for my extract batch with full boil. My Equipment is set up as follows:
10 gallon kettle
60 min boil
.5 gal boil off
.25 gallon cool shrinkage
.5 gallon loss to trub and chiller
.5 gallon fermenter loss
This gives me, predictably, a 6.75 gallon boil/pre-boil volume, 5.5 gallon batch volume into fermenter, and 5 gallon bottling volume. So far so good.
But then I tab over to the 'Vols.' tab, where I see these same numbers confirmed, except at the very top it says "Total Water Needed: 7.95 gallons". Why all that extra water? I'm doing extract/full boil, so there's nothing mash-related that would use water.
I got into brewing because I enjoy tweaking recipes, and so I've been playing around with Beersmith with some recipe ideas after just a few extract/kit batches under my belt. Overall, I'm getting the hang of it, except for one thing: the 'Total Water Needed' number under the 'Vols' tab, which is consistently over a gallon higher than what I think it should be for my extract batch with full boil. My Equipment is set up as follows:
10 gallon kettle
60 min boil
.5 gal boil off
.25 gallon cool shrinkage
.5 gallon loss to trub and chiller
.5 gallon fermenter loss
This gives me, predictably, a 6.75 gallon boil/pre-boil volume, 5.5 gallon batch volume into fermenter, and 5 gallon bottling volume. So far so good.
But then I tab over to the 'Vols.' tab, where I see these same numbers confirmed, except at the very top it says "Total Water Needed: 7.95 gallons". Why all that extra water? I'm doing extract/full boil, so there's nothing mash-related that would use water.