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rhcpfan4002:
Finally making the leap to AG. Decided to make a Southern Brown Ale since that was the first recipe I created to get away from kits. I have been googling and searching for an answer to a question and I don't know if I'm using the wrong words but I can't find anything on this subject that I trust. For AG what is the proper water temp for dough-in? I am basically going to do a simple one-step Saccrification mash for my first batch, so I can learn how to use the equipment and the the like, and don't know were the dough-in temperature comes into play?

Also, has anyone else looked at an old recipe and said to themselves "what the hell was I thinking?!" while remembering how proud you were of that said recipe?

m.a.hummel:
It depends on what your target mash temperature is, how much grain you are using, and what the temperature of your grain and mash tun are. 
Do yourself a favor and download a brewing calculator. You can get a free trial of beersmith. That has good tools on it. There are a multitude of others too.

theDarkSide:
+1 for Beersmith, but there are plenty out there to get you started.

garc_mall:
I use an app for my android phone called Brewzor. It has some stuff to work with beersmith, but I really use it for all of the calculators. It has a strike water temperature calculator, IBU calculators, and all of that.

Remember that you need to preheat your cooler if you are using one, I usually heat my strike water up 3-5 degrees above the calculated temperature. When I add it to the cold cooler, I give it a couple minutes, and it is right at the proper strike temperature. I then add my grain, and I am right at my proper rest temperature.

lazydog79:
Another +1 for Beersmith!  I know I am math-impaired, so I made purchasing Beersmith part of the package when I went AG.  For $20, you can't beat what it can do for you.  The 2.0 version is even better, I'm just too cheap to get it.  I couldn't imagine brewing without some kind of software, but plenty of people do...just know one with a Social Sciences Ed. degree  8) 

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