I am getting ready to brew a 1.049 OG 5 gallon beer recipe but want to use my smaller 10 gallon kettle (it was a wife present and I have not used it in a while) instead of the 15 gallon one and I want to make sure it can handle the recipe. The total grain bill is 11 lb 3 oz and the software I use calls for 7.4 gallons of strike water for no sparge. What that translates in my mind is that I have a little less than 2.5 gallons worth of displacement before it overflows when I add all of the grain to the BIAB. I have been on a number of internet sites where you can plug in numbers (like Green Bay Rackers etc) and keep getting different numbers. Can anyone definitively confirm how much the above grain bill will displace. The kettle is 13.8 inches in diameter.
Thanks!
John
Thanks!
John