Beer Smith Question

[Motorbikeman]

Thanks.  I tried that.  But is still not working out.   When I added mash steps and changed the names. 

Its saying fly sparge.

Im only going to be mashing with 10L of water

and I got a red light on my mash volume.

COuld I go back to the original and divide my sparge water by 3 equal amounts manually.  Can Beer smith do that automatically.
 

   

[pob]

BIAB'er here (full volume from start), so not sure how you'd calculate/set it up.

Must be other spargers with advice.

[Leann ull]

When you start batch sparging more than twice it can cause issues like tannins coming from grain husks leading to astringency, why do you think you need the extra step/s?
Better to throw in a few more grams of grain rather than trying to put what you have through the mangle.

[molc]

You're getting a water volume issue, simply as that's the amount of water you'll need to achieve your pre-boil volume with those settings. Also, each sparge step is going to add at least another 20mins to your process, as you need to fill, stir, then let it settle and vorlauf.

Better off just doing a single sparge. To remove fly sparge, you need to tick batch sparge or equal sparge sizes (can't remember offhand) in the sparging setup screen.

Personally, I always setup my mash in to be 20L and then I sparge with about 15L, give or take, depending on what Beersmith tells me. It makes my process easier on brew day and the mash thickness doesn't have a huge effect by all accounts, though it's usually between 2.5L and 3.5L using that system.

[Motorbikeman]

The last brew fell way short of the OG with 2 steps yet  the 2 brews before were bang on the money with 3 steps.   

I did use a custom kit this time also which had me wondering and doubting the person that put it together .   Thats the only two changes I used. 




Molc. that did the trick...   I dropped the size of my mash tun by 5 L  and it added a third step  after I restarted the program .   

Now its saying.

Batch Sparge with 3 steps.  ( 1L ,10l, 10l ) at 75 degrees. 

[Leann ull]

can you qualify how far was way short, not really sure what you have is a sparging issue, grain crush, accuracy of your temps are also areas I'd be looking at, we all have speed wobbles from time to time best fun is learning from them to make better beer.