
Please be patient as more links will be added you have to start somewhere. What Did You Learn This Month? (4th Wed.) Brewing Tools/Information With your setup you shouldn't use the BIAB mash setting, instead use a Batch sparge setting. Now if you aren't squeezing the bag post sparge, you are not getting the assumed grain absorption value. Tu: Tuesday Recipe Critique and Formulation!įri: Free-For-All Friday! Monthly Threads If you pick BIAB as your mash setting in BeerSmith it will change the Grain absorption value to make up for squeezing the bag.

Vendors/Potential Vendors, read this before posting Daily Threads If my interpretation is correct, what do people think about the two methods? Supposedly (according to the link) the first method yields better efficiency, but the second sounds easier.Welcome those of the fermentation persuasion!īefore making a post, read our posting guidelines I ask because there are some forum posts suggesting draining, and sparging twice (with 1.37gal then 3.25gal), but sparging with 1.37gal seems odd.

My confusion seems to stem from "2 step", since it seems like you're really only sparging once. As far as volumes are concerned, I aim for a water:grain ratio of 1.5+:1 and close to equal runnings. I've never understood why BS always recommends two steps. I get "Batch sparge with 2 steps (Drain mash tun,, 4.62gal) of 168.0 F water" with the drain box checked. Ignore the two step batch sparge instructions and use the entire volume in one step-unless, of course you are brewing a huge beer and can't fit the entire sparge volume in one step. I get this option when the mash profile has the 'Drain mash tun before sparging' unchecked, and it seems to jive with what the link says. 12.2’s of grain used just over 9 gal of H2O in twin 15 gal Blichmann kettles with false bottoms on top of gas burners. I brewed two side by side 5.5 gallon batches using unique water adjustments testing flavor differences. Notes Mash Steps 7:06 - FLAME ON 7:23 - 4.06 Gallons to 173 degrees 7:29 - DOUGH IN at 167 degrees 7:40 - MASH IN at 151 degrees for 60 minutes 8:10 - STIR (Temp at 149 degrees) 8:40 - 1.38 Gallons boiling to MASH OUT at 168 degrees VORLAUF 8:50 - FIRST RUNNINGS 3.2 gallons SG 1.073 8:58 - 3.625 Gallons BATCH SPARGE at 170 degrees 10:16 - SECOND RUNNINGS 3.8 gallons SG 1.019. I used the no sparge technique yesterday with success. "Batch sparge with 2 steps (1.37gal, 3.25gal) of 168.0 F water" means add the first quantity of water to the tun before draining, wait, drain, then add the second quantity, wait, drain. Thanks for bringing this technique to the masses. After poking through old forum posts and checking out what the BeerSmith people say (down under Batch Sparge Calculations here) here is what I'm thinking: I'm getting ready to do my first all-grain batch and have been mostly successful understanding the BeerSmith instructions.
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If you can think of a good general link or even a better one than is currently posted please message the mods and let us know! Acronym Soup Yeast Harvesting Yeast Starter Priming Sugar Calculator Is It Infected? r/Homebrewing chat: As sour beers are gaining popularity people are looking for more information and more ways to homebrew them, especially ways to shortcut. Faking Your Way Into a Lambic-Style Kriek (Recipe Included). Tu: Tuesday Recipe Critique and Formulation!įri: Free-For-All Friday! Monthly Threads Brain Sparging on Brewing Sour beer, saisons, farmhouse beer, homebrewing, ramblings. For example, in today's american wheat recipe, I mash in with 11.71 qt of water and then Batch sparge with 2 steps, 1.69 gal then 3.5 gal. When I completely drain my sparge water heater 0.33 gal is left behind so Sparge/Lauter Loss is set to match. In the brewing steps, BeerSmith always seems to tell me to Batch sparge with 2 steps.

The Sparge Vessel Volume is set to 10 gal because this is the maximum volume. Vendors/Potential Vendors, read this before posting Daily Threads Using the Grain Absorption value from BeerSmith of 0.9600 fl oz/oz of grain this converts to 0.12 gal/lb. Hi, The standard mash profiles are designed for fly sparging, so any of the regular ones (either mash out or no mash out) will do The use of fly sparging might raise your overall brewhouse efficiency a bit, but only after you have a few batches under your hat. Welcome those of the fermentation persuasion!īefore making a post, read our posting guidelines
