The Outil Volumes d'Eau closely matches the internal calculations used for estimating Eau needed within a recipe. To use the Outil Volumes d'Eau, you need to enter many of the same details contained an equipment profile.
Using the Outil Volumes d'Eau
| o | Select the Outil Volumes d'Eau from the Tools menu or ribbon. |
| o | At the top select the brew type - if doing an extract brew the mash portion of this dialog will be greyed out as you don't need to mash for an extract beer. |
| o | Below the brew type, the total Eau needed for brewing the beer is displayed |
| o | In the Mash section, you can enter the mash Eau volume (amount you are adding during the mash), total grain weight, lauter tun deadspace and top up Eau for the kettle. The calculator will show the amount of Eau absorbed by the grain (grain absorption) and the total sparge Eau needed. |
| o | For boil and fermentation, enter you boil losses (for evaporation), losses to trub/chiller, cooling loss (typically 4%), top up Eau and volume into the fermenter. You can also include fermentation losses if desired. |
| o | The calculator will show your start of boil volume, boil off percentage, cooling losses and volume at bottling. |
