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Got the mash going for a Rye Pale Ale. Using for the first time Beersmith software and refractometer. Already found one mistake I made in setting up profile for the mash, I wanted to end up medium body single infusion batch sparge, mashed in at temp and wasn't close. Started playing on the coo purer and found I did not check the box for temp adjust and was 6 deg low on the strike water. I am now using a profile for a single infusion light body batch sparge. So I have that going for me!

Always a few hitches when you're using new toys. But you'll settle in and make these things part of your regular brewing, and it'll work out great.

Good luck with the Rye Pale Ale. I'm drinking my Rye-Guy IPA right now, and I'm liking it a lot!

First venture into the Rye territory, if this is the only mistake I make with the new software on this brew then I'm good. This particular batch just won't be as malty as I had hoped, but may work out better than I had planned. Checked first runnings with the refractometer 1.085 in just seconds then after first sparge it is at 1.054, projected pre-boil is 1.043. I am loving this tool !

The adjust temp box got me too Steve!

Dawg LB Steve wrote:Got the mash going for a Rye Pale Ale. Using for the first time Beersmith software and refractometer. Already found one mistake I made in setting up profile for the mash, I wanted to end up medium body single infusion batch sparge, mashed in at temp and wasn't close. Started playing on the coo purer and found I did not check the box for temp adjust and was 6 deg low on the strike water. I am now using a profile for a single infusion light body batch sparge. So I have that going for me!

Well this was a learning experience, missed on the checking of boxes, missed on adjusting temp of grain and tun, missed on comprehending what I was seeing until after yeast was pitched. I was not comprehending that the two numbers in parentheses were total for the sparge, so I was short on volume by water I could get thru my head at the time. But with my other new toy it should have registered that I was short on my pre-boil volume by the pre-boil gravity! It was estimated to be 1.043 it should have hit me like a sledgehammer when I got 1.058 reading on the refractometer that I was short on volume. All in all I was able to top off the fermenter to acceptable volume and still be a hair above the projected OG, est. 1.053 actual 1.057, did not have any more water that I would have trusted going into the fermenter. It is what it is!