This takes you to your pre-boil volume which you then boil for a given time to concentrate the wort and cook the hops. In general you mash in at a certain thickness (qt/lb, kg/l, bushels/cubic fathom?) and then when your mash is done, you sparge to rinse out the sugars that are still locked in the grains. When making beer, your strike water volume is rarely your total volume. Strike water is what you use to mash in (or to raise the temp in a step mash). Am I thinking about this correctly? Thanks. So with the sparge you are rinsing the grains, but also watering it down a bit. Meaning that if I were to measure the SG of just the strike water after steeping, and before sparge water is added, it would actually be much higher than final. So I am thinking that the programs like BeerSmith and Brewers Friend are calculating the final ABV on the TOTAL volume (after sparge water). I think some allow better or worse conversion, and feel free to let me know what you think is the best), and the strike water volume is much less then the total volume at the end. Looks like you can use whatever qt/lb you like (within reason. From what I am seeing in the strike and sparge water calculator, this is not true. I had thought that your strike water was essentially your batch size in the kettle, and when you remove the bag and squeeze (I am using BIAB), you just sparge back to what your total volume should be. From what I understand, I can either add sugar, or add more grain. I am looking to push it up a bit, only got 5.5% ABV last time. ![]() So I have been using BeerSmith and Brewers friend software to figure out what my expected ABV should be. And it appears I might have misunderstood a few things on my first attempt, and wanted to ask if I am thinking about this in the correct way now. So I need to scale up my previous recipe, and make a few other changes. ![]() I needed something a bit bigger, and their 15 gallon kettle/fermentor is a beast. I started with a 10 Gallon Anvil kettle/fermentor, and it is just not enough. It was a great experience, and I am looking to do another.
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