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All Grain Brewing / Re: Mash/Sparge H2O Amounts

« on: January 30, 2013, 10:50:10 pm »

yea, i agree ... which i'm slowly realizing may be the source of my watered down brews ... i've had to call my last 3 batches "light" beers ...

looking into adjusting the false bottom i picked up for my MegaPot from Northern Brewer ... dropping it down at least an inch

hopefully that does the trick ..

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Mash/Sparge H2O Amounts

« on: January 30, 2013, 04:16:37 pm »

fly sparging

i calculated that i'll need the following:

MASH - 7.5 Gallons (plus 11 Q dead space) = 10.25 Gallons of water

SPARGE - ??  I was told 2Q water per 1 pound grain ... that equals 10 gallons, which seems like way too much.

am i anywhere close?

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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!