Update, so I ran another test recipe. Wiped the app from the phone reinstalled and synced the new recipe. The recipe did not convert to provide a Mash PH online. Thought I was good to go, wrong. If you go in and try to edit the recipe, the Mash PH will then shows up with a number. If you don't...

Thanks for the input on steeping. Unfortunately I followed the recipe that came with the kit. Placed 2.5 gallons in kettle and steeped grains for 20 minutes around 160. Hope this won’t affect my beer to much. In the future I will steep grains in less water. The recipe also gave the option to...

Thank you everyone for your responses. I do realize the steeping grains have little affect. It just bothered me that the Mash PH is showing up in my extract recipe. Im technical about the way I go about things, its a trait I developed being in the following fields; analytical statistics...

So I performed another test recipe, it worked fine. No PH shows up. May have something to do with me syncing the recipe from the app. Not sure why the PH is stuck on the original recipe.

First off I am new to home brewing so this may be a silly question, but Im confused to the reported numbers I am getting on the Mash PH in the recipe builder. Im extract brewing a recipe kit, 5 gallon batch, 3 gallon boil, 7 lbs extract, 1 lb steeping. I researched that Distilled and RO are...