Hello everyone,
I know a 1,000 posts have already been started about this subject, but I feel like my question is an easy answer, I just don't have it, and I can't sift through enough of this to find it.
I'm going to brew a beer that is 12 lbs. of grain BIAB style. I would calculate how much water I will need for the whole brew. The way I see it, I won't need more water for sparge, or for mash out, since I can adjust temperatures with my kettle.
That being said, since I expect to lose 1 gallon of water due to boil off, and about another gallon due to waste and deadspace in my kettle, and since I want to have a final batch of approximately 5 gallons, should I just fill my kettle with 7.5 gallons of water, and rock it?
Any help would be great. HomeBrewTalk.com hasn't failed me yet!
I know a 1,000 posts have already been started about this subject, but I feel like my question is an easy answer, I just don't have it, and I can't sift through enough of this to find it.
I'm going to brew a beer that is 12 lbs. of grain BIAB style. I would calculate how much water I will need for the whole brew. The way I see it, I won't need more water for sparge, or for mash out, since I can adjust temperatures with my kettle.
That being said, since I expect to lose 1 gallon of water due to boil off, and about another gallon due to waste and deadspace in my kettle, and since I want to have a final batch of approximately 5 gallons, should I just fill my kettle with 7.5 gallons of water, and rock it?
Any help would be great. HomeBrewTalk.com hasn't failed me yet!