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I have tried to use the Quick Water Requirements values accessible in the Builder Mash Guidelines section and have found the values impossible to achieve so have generally ignored what they say and plodded on regardless matching what I could to my equipment. I have just found out where I have been going wrong and am surprised I hadn't noticed it earlier.
Viewing the Quick Water Requirements gives:
My big problem is my kettle only holds 24 liters (allowing space for avoiding boil overs!) My Mash Tun does accommodate 30 Litres though - that is why I put that value in the field.
The problem is there is nowhere for the system to know this as there is not a field in the Equipment Profile to enter this.
Unless I am missing something somewhere how do you account for this situation? To make the current system work I have to downsize my mash tun volume - I haven't tried this yet so we shall see what effect this has but I suspect I will get some sort of warning - well I hope so anyway.
If the system doesn't know all the values how can it work out the answer - it currently assumes you have a kettle big enough to handle the resultant wort. To adjust the Batch Size in the builder seems to be AFTER the event of working out Quick water requirements - or does it?
Would an extra field in the Equipment Profile to insert Kettle Volume help things? It would help me understand the calculation better if I knew the system knew all the limitations.
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Viewing the Quick Water Requirements gives:
My big problem is my kettle only holds 24 liters (allowing space for avoiding boil overs!) My Mash Tun does accommodate 30 Litres though - that is why I put that value in the field.
The problem is there is nowhere for the system to know this as there is not a field in the Equipment Profile to enter this.
Unless I am missing something somewhere how do you account for this situation? To make the current system work I have to downsize my mash tun volume - I haven't tried this yet so we shall see what effect this has but I suspect I will get some sort of warning - well I hope so anyway.
If the system doesn't know all the values how can it work out the answer - it currently assumes you have a kettle big enough to handle the resultant wort. To adjust the Batch Size in the builder seems to be AFTER the event of working out Quick water requirements - or does it?
Would an extra field in the Equipment Profile to insert Kettle Volume help things? It would help me understand the calculation better if I knew the system knew all the limitations.
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