This gave me a mash efficiency of 57.9% rather than the estimated 75.3% in BS2.
The other thing that threw me off was that my pre-boil gravity (using hydrometer) was 1.030 rather than the estimated 1.043. Even assuming I was off with my BS2 equipment profile's 0.13 tun deadspace and adding in the 0.2 additional mash water, this was higher than expected. Their estimate was 7 gallons of pre-boil wort. I then did a single batch sparge with 5 gallons heated to 168, exactly like BS2 said. Grains were mashed in a 10-gallon cooler with 3.5 gallons at 152F, BS2 said to use 3.3 but I said screw it and used 3.5. When I brewed this recipe, I got numbers that were wildly off from what BS2 had estimated.
My Irish Red Ale had a pretty basic grain bill: 10lbs 2-row, 1/2 lbs caramel 40L, 1/4 lbs roasted barley (300srm), 1/4 lbs caramel 120L. However, I decided that with moving to all-grain and getting back into homebrewing, I want to really dial in my system to get reliable numbers. I used to just sort of wing it when it came to recipes, either using other people's recipes or just trying to get a ballpark figure of what to hit for my OG and FG. I have an old copy of BeerSmith 2 from my forgone extract brewing days and I don't really see the need to go to BS3, so I still use BS2. Lurked and read many threads here for a long time (such a fantastic wealth of information!), but I finally decided to make an account because I'm stumped and need the help from the great minds in this forum.
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