Goofinder
Wild Elephant Brewery
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I've decided it's time to calibrate my brewery so I can get some consistency into my AG brewery. I've seen the BeerSmith Equipment Setup page, but still not sure about a couple of things:
This should probably all be obvious, but I'd rather do it once and get it sorted so I can start hitting target gravities and volumes and making better beer!
- Lauter tun deadspace - how do you measure this? Is it just as simple as filling the mash tun with water, letting it drain until it drains no more and measuring what is left? Or do I need to take into account the grain volume somehow?
- Losses to trub and chiller - what's the best way to measure this? If I drain out after the boil, it's pretty hard to get all the trub out without adding water. I'm thinking the best way is probably to just calculate the volume left in there based on the height it takes up.
- Following on, does this change all that much depending on the amount of hops used in the boil?
- In general, what's the better way of calibrating a kettle? Actually pouring in 1L at a time from a jug, or calculating based on the height from the bottom? Advantages/disadvantages of dipsticks vs markings on the kettle?
This should probably all be obvious, but I'd rather do it once and get it sorted so I can start hitting target gravities and volumes and making better beer!