Beersmith 3 mash out manual#

Beersmith 3 mash out manual#

So maybe the app produced a higher strike temp but never shows that to you when in its 'auto' mode? Not sure but I'll have to try manual next time to see.Īnyone have info about this? It was a little confusing but in the end, no problems. I doughed-in anyway but the temps never dropped below mash target. But you only see that once next thing you see is that its getting to target mash-temp.Īt dough-in, both the app and the controller read mash temp instead of what should have been a higher strike temp. The app even tells you it's going to do that so that you're at mash temp after dough-in. One thing to note, I had been prepared to heat the strike water higher than mash temp to account for heat loss from adding the grain. This thing heats pretty fast I barely had enough time to weigh my grain and crush it before it was time to dough-in. I prepped my strike water (put it in the Grainfather to mash volume), started the brew session in the App and the thing started heating right away. I'm used to brewing 10G-15G batches with obviously more water, propane burners and related time swing for getting strike/sparge water ready. There are certainly a few process timing things for me to adapt to. Long post but this is the story.Įverything went well I'd say.

Maybe I'll ping Brad to see if he could allow a custom Grain Absorption rate somehow.įirst Grainfather batch in the books. But that's not it because GF and BeerSmith calculate this exactly the same. Lots of folks seem to report a slow boil so I wondered about boil-off rate. But strike water and resulting total water volume remains higher using BeerSmith. Other that that, I can get closer to the GF sparge water volume in BS by changing the mash water to grain ratio for a thinner mash of 1.5 quarts per pound.

But from what I can see in the current version of BeerSmith, this rate is set globally in the app so changing it would affect all recipes regardless of equipment profile. If there was a way to change this rate per recipe or equipment profile in BeerSmith, I think that would be key for making the two align. (0.0959 Gallons/Pound)īeerSmith has 2 different Grain Absorption rates, one for BIAB and another for all other methods. It looks like GF uses something like 0.765 fl oz/oz of grain. The biggest factor affecting this appears to be the Grain Absorption rate being used for GF -vs- BeerSmith. So I started looking into what might be causing the difference. Right off the bat I did notice the variance for water volumes between Strike water and Sparge water. So I took a recipe I had scaled in BeerSmith for the G30 equipment profile and entered it into the GF app. All of that seemed convoluted to me so I wanted to see for myself. While I haven't read all 120 pages of the referenced HBT thread, I have noticed several folks saying that they would use BeerSmith for the recipe and then put that in the GF App for water volumes. I have especially been interested in this part.