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You can expect updates and continued support. BeerSmith has been great with providing support and updates to the previous version, and it seems BeerSmith 3 is no different. But knowing exactly what that gravity will be based on extract efficiency is tough if you are only doing a 'partial' sparge. If you’re a BeerSmith user, you know that there can be bugs here and there, and sometimes crashes do occur. Note that Beersmith WILL estimate your hop bitterness reasonably well if you change your wort gravity.
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If you can estimate it yourself (say through trial and error over time), then it is dead easy to use Beersmith to calculate your recipes. I am not aware of any program (Beersmith or otherwise) that can estimate this effect on efficiency for you. The problem is that when you reduce your sparge water (to reduce the boil volume), your efficiency suffers. If you don't want to add extract, then boiling a higher gravity wort and topping up with water at the end is still possible. It seems very high, and will certainly result in more than 10 gal of wort in my boil kettle. BeerSmith says: Mash In: Add 11.7L at 70deg. I have a 2-bucket lauter tun, so I am planning to keep the mash warm in the pot for 75 minutes, then filter / sparge in the lauter tun I guess. This number doesnt change when I adjust my grain bill. I have chosen the 'Single infusion, Light body, No mash out' profile in BeerSmith, I hope that is correct.
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Im using BeerSmith2, which says my sparge volume should be almost 8 gallons. I thought they were there just to play the podcast that we're listening to, but no there's a special beer recipe program open. You can certainly do a recipe all grain and add top-up water at the end of the boil, but expect that you are going to suffer from low hop utilization and you may get a little darker, more caramelized wort at the end of it all (could be OK for some styles, but not all). Im setting up to do my first all-grain brew: 10gal in a 3-tier keg kettle system. I would also suggest that you do a partial mash with a late extract addition.