A bit of background. I have been a stovetop extract brewer for 7 years. I am finally making a quantum leap forward to all grain. I just purchased a complete turn key system from Spike (20 gallon). I have finally got everything set up and working, no leaks. I have decided to start with Brewer's Friend for my brew software. I have been building my equipment profile and think I have everything pretty close. I have confirmed that I get exactly one gallon of boil off in 60 minutes. I have also tested the amount of loss I get when transferring out of the boil kettle into my conical. 1.5 gallons. This loss is due to the pump, hoses, counterflow chiller. My plan is to get 11 gallon batches into the fermenter. By the data I provided above, you can see I need to be at 13.5 gallons into the boil kettle before the start of the boil. Simple so far. However, my grain bill looks huge as well as my water schedule.
Are my equipment inputs way off? Why so much water? I realize my system has a lot of waste with the pumps, hoses and HERMs, but it still seems like a lot...
Any advice would be appreciated.
This was just a test recipe I picked from the database.
Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde scaled to 12.5 kettle gallons
Are my equipment inputs way off? Why so much water? I realize my system has a lot of waste with the pumps, hoses and HERMs, but it still seems like a lot...
Any advice would be appreciated.
This was just a test recipe I picked from the database.
Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde scaled to 12.5 kettle gallons