I just brewed my first beer using the Brewie+ machine this past weekend, and was surprised that the Brewie doesn't calculate the mashing/sparging water that is needed for your created recipe. I normally use BeerSmith 2 to calculate the needed water for my 'manual' brewing setup and its pretty accurate +/- 0.2 gallons. Before brewing, I tried to use these instructions to add in new equipment into BeerSmith so that it would calculate the appropriate water needs for my system, but after inputting everything, it seemed to want me to use more water than I would actually need.
So I did some more searching and found this (also uploaded image of recommended water usage) on the official Brewie website. It doesn't give exact numbers and for my 11.265 lbs of grain I used 7.1 gallons of water, 4.5 gal for mash and 2.6 gal for sparge. In the end for the 5 gal recipe, I ended up with at least 5.5 gallons and had to dump some so that I could fit it into my 5 gallon glass carboy.
Long story short, do any of you Brewie users have a better and more accurate way to calculate mash/sparge water for the system? Next weekend I am planning on brewing a smaller batch, 2.5 gallons, with low ABV ,~3.0%, and that chart that the Brewie people give won't be too helpful.
So I did some more searching and found this (also uploaded image of recommended water usage) on the official Brewie website. It doesn't give exact numbers and for my 11.265 lbs of grain I used 7.1 gallons of water, 4.5 gal for mash and 2.6 gal for sparge. In the end for the 5 gal recipe, I ended up with at least 5.5 gallons and had to dump some so that I could fit it into my 5 gallon glass carboy.
Long story short, do any of you Brewie users have a better and more accurate way to calculate mash/sparge water for the system? Next weekend I am planning on brewing a smaller batch, 2.5 gallons, with low ABV ,~3.0%, and that chart that the Brewie people give won't be too helpful.