Well, I finally joined the 21st century dragging and screaming, and am in the process of migrating all my recipes over to Beer Smith. Just starting to learn its capabilities but very cool so far.
The one thing that I can't figure out is that the strike temps given by Beer Smith are routinely low. I use a 10 gallon Igloo for a mash tun. I found out via actual testing that the MLT indeed has a thermal mass of 0.30.
Single infusion, 152F. Using that same .30 for thermal mass, Promash gives me 180 in strike temp, whereas Beersmith gives me strike temp of 173. Obviously very different and though I've not brewed yet with any of the Beersmith recipes, given the Promash setting nails my mash-in infusion temp, I suspect following the Beersmith recommendation will mean I'm coming in really low on mash-in.
Anyone else experience this? Suggestions?
The one thing that I can't figure out is that the strike temps given by Beer Smith are routinely low. I use a 10 gallon Igloo for a mash tun. I found out via actual testing that the MLT indeed has a thermal mass of 0.30.
Single infusion, 152F. Using that same .30 for thermal mass, Promash gives me 180 in strike temp, whereas Beersmith gives me strike temp of 173. Obviously very different and though I've not brewed yet with any of the Beersmith recipes, given the Promash setting nails my mash-in infusion temp, I suspect following the Beersmith recommendation will mean I'm coming in really low on mash-in.
Anyone else experience this? Suggestions?