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I'm still going to work with Beersmith, but I'm a bit disappointed because I bought this full-featured calculator for exactly these sorts of calculations. I'd rather get more or less good beer than make variable quality beer based on the calculator. I'd rather aim to make a 5.5 gal batch (for 5 gal into kettle) if I'm using a coil or 6-6.5 gal batch to compensate for cold break if I so choose.
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I'm happy to take recommendations on how to handle this from you guys, but for now I'm going to calculate 0 gal for either of these losses. I know this is false because yeast cake is always much more bitter than the yeast above it. Fermenter trub again contains nothing but hop/grist solids/yeast matter, so it has zero sugar and now zero alpha acids. Also it means that you pump up cold break material only after all clear wort is pumped out, leaving 100% of the loss in the plate chiller (actually this still seems to be double-dipping a bit, since Beersmith calls it 'trub/chiller losses'). Leaving it behind means leaving zero clear wort behind. Cold break material in the kettle is assumed to contain zero sugar but be of the same IBU of the wort. In theory, Beersmith isn't too far off, but it makes assumptions: 1. So what I can glean from surfing the webs is that a number of people have had this problem in the past. Fermenter loss volumes affect neither IBU or OG. Trub loss volumes will affect the IBU calculation but not the OG. I tried playing with the trub and ferm losses and here's what I found: I forgot my hydrometer at home, but my refractometer read 1.035. Also my brew partner left for the day, so I decided to use the old standby immersion coil chiller instead of the plate, not thinking about the volumes.īy the end of the boil I was still more than a gallon over target. I knew something was off when I was lautering and I was over volume in the kettle while I still had tons of wort in the mashtun.The mash/wort I dumped was still very sweet since the water hadn't had a chance to drain. I did calculate the pretty standard 0.5 gal fermenter loss, but since I've been losing a lot of 'brains' in my kettle and some more liquid in my new plate chiller, I also added 1 gal of trub loss. Put in the recipe, mashed in according to Beersmith, all good.
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Today I made a hefe using Beersmith mobile. First try went ok I think, but I did that on PC Beersmith demo. Ok, probably not the first time this was up here, but probably worth mentioning for beersmith noobs: Beersmith may not calculate trub loss (kettle trub loss) or fermenter loss (fermenter trub loss) the way you think it would.
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