Beersmith scale recipe
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Once you have that set up, things should be easier for you. You want beersmith to consistenly model what your equipment/techniques produce. Obviously your system is going to make a different beer than the guy online's system, so the goal isn't to make beersmith match that.
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Ultimately, if you get beersmith set up right, it should be a relatively good model for your system. If you're constantly missing your gravity on the low side, set your Tot Efficiency to 65% (or even 60% if you miss badly) and then adjust your base malt up to get your recipe where it should be. Like I said, I get pretty good results estimating at 70% efficiency for mid-high gravity beers. BUT, that only works if you have beersmith set up properly, which involves knowing what efficiency you get with your system. So the short answer is yes, you have to tweak recipes when you put them in beersmith to get the numbers that you want. I believe the profile I sent you is meant to put 5.5 gallons into the fermentor so that you get close to 5 gallons of finished beer. OG will be different because whoever posted the recipe will have different efficiency than you. IBUs are always going to be a bit different because there are several different ways of calculating them, and they all involve some guesses/assumptions. I also try to record and enter pre-boil volume and pre-boil gravity, as that lets me know if I'm approximately where I should be prior to boiling. If you don't record those numbers and re-input them back into beersmith, your measured efficiency is going to be totally wrong. Measured efficency is what Beersmith calculates based on you entering your measured OG and volume into the fermenter. Above that and I estimate 70% efficency, unless it's a really big beer (> 1.090), in which case I estimate 65%. Who cares if you have to put an extra lb or two of base malt in your recipe to get the OG where you want it, as long as you know to do that? With the equipment at the brewhouse, I can usually count on an efficiency of around 75% for beers up to around 1.060. Remember, the goal is consistency, not necessarily high efficiency (unless low efficency is an indicator of something wrong with your process). If you routinely get 60% efficiency, and you enter 60 in the "Tot Efficiency" field in the recipe design screen, that will help you to hit your numbers more accurately. That's how beersmith calculates the numbers it gives you. You need to enter the estimated efficiency for your system. I'm always happy to help walk you through, and I can email you the profile I use for lucas's tun and your pot if we're not going to be at the brewhouse at the same time in the near future. That's a vigorous boil, but you can actually boil off slightly more if you really get a crazy boil going. I make sure that I've collected enough pre-boil volume before I start my boil, and I use about 1.2 gallons/hour boil off rate for your pot on a blichmann burner.
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3 for chiller/trub losses to the counterflow. 3 gallons as the MLT deadspace for Lucas's tun, and another. Use the same equipment every time if you can. Figure out (as precisely as you can) how much you're collecting and how much you're leaving behind. I found that I started hitting (or getting close to) my numbers when I began keeping closer track of my volumes. There's no question that it takes some tweaking for every single recipe that's probably my biggest annoyance with brewsmith. I get great results with beersmith, and consistently am within 5 or so percent of my numbers.