I'm a big fan of Belgian style ales and I'm just getting in to all grain brewing. Up to this point I've been doing a single step infusion with batch sparge due to ease and simplicity of mashing for 5-6 gallon batches.
From what I've read all/most of the Belgian brewers use a multistep infusion with fly sparge. For my small batch homebrew, I don't want to buy a bunch of equipment to fly sparge. I'd rather stick to batch sparging, which seems to have gotten me at 72% brewhouse efficiency based on my results. I would like to try a multistep infusion to mash closer to the way Belgians do.
BeerSmith has very helpful and easy to use mash profiles for single step infusion, batch sparge or multistep infusion, fly sparge. What I'm struggling with is how to design a mash profile for multistep infusion, batch sparge. Can someone help me or point me to a good tutorial on how to build a mash profile in BeerSmith?
Thanks in advance,
-Robert
From what I've read all/most of the Belgian brewers use a multistep infusion with fly sparge. For my small batch homebrew, I don't want to buy a bunch of equipment to fly sparge. I'd rather stick to batch sparging, which seems to have gotten me at 72% brewhouse efficiency based on my results. I would like to try a multistep infusion to mash closer to the way Belgians do.
BeerSmith has very helpful and easy to use mash profiles for single step infusion, batch sparge or multistep infusion, fly sparge. What I'm struggling with is how to design a mash profile for multistep infusion, batch sparge. Can someone help me or point me to a good tutorial on how to build a mash profile in BeerSmith?
Thanks in advance,
-Robert