Grainfather

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

I would, yes.

[DEMPSEY]

The 2 of those downloads seem t have conflicting information. Lauter Tun Deadspace on one is 1.50 and the other is 3.41. Also Top up water for Kettle on one is 0.00 while the other is 3.41. any reason they are so different

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

I'm not sure.
I've never topped up so I'd leave that field blank.
I've never physically measured dead space but I reckon it's roughly 2ltrs.

[DEMPSEY]

Measured it with the small filter and it was 2.1 Liters

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

Jaysus I wasn't far off :-)

[DEMPSEY]

Trying to get my head around the water adjustment in Beersmith for the mash amount.Anyone able to adjust the mash water additions to reflect what the grainfather ask for

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

I always stick to the GF website for their mash/Sparge volumes.
It would be nice if BS could be adjusted somehow

Any Beersmith Experts know how?

[BrewDorg]

Not sure if this is what ye're asking, but I know if I want to change my mash & sparge amounts in my mash profiles, I need to increase/decrease the grain/water ratio value. Double click your mash step in BS and you'll see it. Let me know if that's what you mean!

[DEMPSEY]

tried that but the issue with Grainfather is you have a grain to liter ratio all right but then you add a fixed amount extra of 3.5 Liters

[Will_D]

I just use the GF formula in ther instructions!

Ok, its in the brewing recipe/logs spreadsheet.

Last brew I did got a 83% mash efficiency. (again using their formula)

[Hefeman]

I have only done a few brews on mine and had a couple of disasters, stuck sparge (milled too fine), blocked pump resulted in aborting my first two attempts. On third attempt I milled on wider setting and used hop bag for all hop additions and the brew went very well though low efficiency. What's the verdict on using boil bags for hops? Do people hang them off the side? I can't understand how GF are claiming this is not necessary. Also their hop spider seems to be too coarse for pellets at 800 microns.

[jawalemon]

I haven't used a hop bag and haven't had any problems.

For water amounts I use the grainfather app and haven't had any problems.

[Hefeman]

Is that using leaf or pellet? I use pellet.

[jawalemon]

I use pellet

[Pheeel]

I had brewed a dipa with a mix of leaf and pellets with about 250g of hops. Nothing came out of the counterflow chiller until i moved some of the leaf off the filter so that the pump could do its work. 2 second fix and it was grand after that.
I bought a hop spider in the recent group buy as i find lifting the GF and emptying it with a load of wet hops can be a ton weight. I personally haven't bothered with hop bags a year+