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All Grain Brewing / Mash/Sparge H2O Amounts

« on: January 30, 2013, 04:12:25 PM »

hey all - i'm a fairly new AG brewer and i'm having some problems trying to calculate how much water i should be using in my mash and during my sparge process ... would really appreciate your input as to what i'm doing wrong.

for my next 5 gallon brew, i have a total of 20 lbs of grain (plus 1 lb of candi sugar).  i also have 11 quarts of dead space in my mash tun.  how much water should i be using for my mash?

also, with that same brew, how much water should i sparge with?

thanks very much in advance!