I normally take a sample of the wort cooled to 20 C and measure SG......... hopefully you haven't over added water and all you need to do is add water to correct SG to desired level.
hey what? most people are doing it wrong then really, if your calculating IBU and gravity etc then you have to account for the extra volume left behind, all calcualtion need to be for how much wort you actually made not how much of it you can manage to get into your fermentor and disregard the rest, pretend it does not exist.
no one cares how much of it you personally can get into your fermentor when looking at your recipes, everyone will be a little different, what you need is the actuall size of the wort at the end of the boil.
I don't see how there can be any confusion at all, common sense says you made/making so much wort and thats what the calculations are based on.
Volume into fermentor is sometimes refered to or calculated as brewhouse effiency, no one needs or wants to know or worry about someone elses brewhouse effiency, I couldn't care less if you loose 5 litres to the kettle and get 20 litres into the fermentor all you need know is you made 25 litres.
Beersmith seems to go off the batch size for its IBU and gravity calcs, there is a large IBU/OG difference between a 25L batch size, and a 20L batch size with 5L trub/chiller losses, which is a little confusing.
Beersmith seems to go off the batch size for its IBU and gravity calcs, there is a large IBU/OG difference between a 25L batch size, and a 20L batch size with 5L trub/chiller losses, which is a little confusing.
yes, it is strange, to get a true calculation of the IBUs you need to set your losses to 0 otherwise beersmith will only calculate the IBUs for your batch size and not take the losses into account when calculating the IBUs.
This seems to contradict Beersmith's own help file, which says:Batch Volume is the volume in the kettle post boil.
Screwy
You should set your final volume to 20.8 - as that is the amount of beer you wish to brew.So in beersmith I have Final Volume set to 20.8L because that pretty much suits the cube. I have been ending up with that amount for the few brews I have done leaving a litre or so of crap behind in the keggle. Should my final volume actually be 22L and I just remove the Lost to boil trub? I have boil off as 15% (6.9L for 90min boil).
You can put your losses to the kettle in the Equipment setup screen, under "Lost to boil trub and chiller".So in beersmith I have Final Volume set to 20.8L because that pretty much suits the cube. I have been ending up with that amount for the few brews I have done leaving a litre or so of crap behind in the keggle. Should my final volume actually be 22L and I just remove the Lost to boil trub? I have boil off as 15% (6.9L for 90min boil).
So in beersmith I have Final Volume set to 20.8L because that pretty much suits the cube. I have been ending up with that amount for the few brews I have done leaving a litre or so of crap behind in the keggle. Should my final volume actually be 22L and I just remove the Lost to boil trub? I have boil off as 15% (6.9L for 90min boil).
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