i have become confused

[Mark1964]

When entering recipes into beersmith the chart gives a volume of water for the mash and then a boil volume and then when you print the recipe it also gives you a sparge volume of water too. To work out the total amount of water needed for the entire brew do you add the mash water volume with the total water volume and then treat all that amount????? My heads gone :?

 

[keith1664]

Tend to use brewmate myself but I'd have thought you add the mash and sparge volumes to give you the amount to treat. The boil volume will be what you need in the boiler at the start of boil to hit your final volume.