Do I have to split my water additions?

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Do I have to split my water additions?

Post by MitchK » Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:00 pm

I use a grainfather, so my mash recircs and then I lift out the mash basket and sparge into the same vessel that I was just mashing in - do I have to split my mineral additions between mash + sparge or would I get basically the same effect by just adding all my salts to the mash? I know I don't want to wait for the boil to add them since calcium helps conversion.

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Re: Do I have to split my water additions?

Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:49 pm

MitchK wrote:I use a grainfather, so my mash recircs and then I lift out the mash basket and sparge into the same vessel that I was just mashing in - do I have to split my mineral additions between mash + sparge or would I get basically the same effect by just adding all my salts to the mash? I know I don't want to wait for the boil to add them since calcium helps conversion.
Mine are split between mash and sparge (when I do 3 vessel brews)
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