I'll be brewing my first CHAOS beer this coming Saturday.
I'm calculating my water totals and am wondering if you can tell me:
How much wort is left in the bottom of the lauter tuns?
What percentage of water is boiled off in 1 hour?
How much loss there is to the wort chiller?
Any other losses I should know about?
Hi,
Here are some answers based on my experience:
I lose a bit over a quart in the false-bottom mash tuns (I think I input .3 into beersmith).
I boil off about 1.25 gallons/hour with the 10 gallon pots and 1.5 gallons/hour with the 15 gallon pots.
I would estimate about a quart is lost to the chiller.
Hope that helps.
-Adam
These are my Brewamith equipment profile settings, for my process its very accurate, yours may differ. It's based on using one of the 10 gallon pots and I'll include info for both 90 and 60 minute boils. I usually use 90.
Brewhouse Efficiency 72%
Hop Utilization 100%
Mash Tun Volume 10 gal
Mash Tun Weight 9 lbs
Specific Heat .3
Deadspace .4 Gal
60 minute Boil
Top up 0
Boil Volume 6.71
Time 60
Boil off 1.2 gal/hr
90 Min. boil
top up 0
Boil Volume 7.31
Time 90
Boil off 1.2 gal/hr
Fermenter and losses
Loss to trub and chiller .5 gal (recently upped this from .3 I think I was losing to much to trub and ending up with less wort than I wanted.)
After all that look in the preferences on the tool bar, next to add-ons, and open that up. Take a look at the bitterness tab and make sure it's measuring the bitterness formula in Tinseth, as that is most accurate.
Wow! I'm glad I asked. I was reading that 8-12% was average but you guys are talking about 18%!
Thanks for all the other info too.