BakeryHill
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I've searched the forums and found many references to BeerSmith but none answers my question.
I've recently bought the program mainly as I'm about to experiment with different styles, and I'm vaguely familiar with the program as it was used to create my first style by Craft Brewer.
The problem I have is: I've set up my equipment profile so that when I scale the recipes down they should match my equipment (15L stockpot producing 9L BIAB batches). However, when I choose a style and scale it down, the resulting recipe isn't right. For example, the mash in step is 14.6L with a fly sparge of 5.3L - those two amounts exceed the volume of my tun (which I've set at realistic 13L). The pre-boil volume is set at 11L so 14.6 + 5.3 well exceeds 11L even taking into account some grain absorption (4.9kg of grain - another measurement which doesn't look right for a 9L BIAB).
The reason I say the water amounts are wrong (apart from the fact their total exceeds the volume of the tun) is when I compare it to the APA recipe Craft Brewer did up - the mash in amount and fly sparge amount are more realistic (11L and 2L respectively) leaving a post-boil volume of 9.1L. The total grain weight is about 2.5kg which is more realistic than the 4.9kg above. Obviously these amounts were individually customised to meet my requirements by Craft Brewer which might come from experience.
Difficult question to answer without being in front of the program I know, but if anyone has any suggestions I'd be happy to hear them.
I've recently bought the program mainly as I'm about to experiment with different styles, and I'm vaguely familiar with the program as it was used to create my first style by Craft Brewer.
The problem I have is: I've set up my equipment profile so that when I scale the recipes down they should match my equipment (15L stockpot producing 9L BIAB batches). However, when I choose a style and scale it down, the resulting recipe isn't right. For example, the mash in step is 14.6L with a fly sparge of 5.3L - those two amounts exceed the volume of my tun (which I've set at realistic 13L). The pre-boil volume is set at 11L so 14.6 + 5.3 well exceeds 11L even taking into account some grain absorption (4.9kg of grain - another measurement which doesn't look right for a 9L BIAB).
The reason I say the water amounts are wrong (apart from the fact their total exceeds the volume of the tun) is when I compare it to the APA recipe Craft Brewer did up - the mash in amount and fly sparge amount are more realistic (11L and 2L respectively) leaving a post-boil volume of 9.1L. The total grain weight is about 2.5kg which is more realistic than the 4.9kg above. Obviously these amounts were individually customised to meet my requirements by Craft Brewer which might come from experience.
Difficult question to answer without being in front of the program I know, but if anyone has any suggestions I'd be happy to hear them.