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Oh how I tremble when starting a new thread.... The fear of "do a search you dick".... Trust me I did.
So here goes. I have been noticing that any beers I make, that are darker than a light colour, are noticeably darker than my pic in Beersmith predicts. Maybe the light ones are too, but its subtle enough that I cant tell.
I know I have the specs right in my malts and everything is set to EBC.
I am going to have a crack at a Vale Ale clone (if anyone saw that thread recently) and the brewer told me 40EBC.
That looks (in my Beersmith) way darker than the real thing, and what scares me even more is that my beers are coming out darker than in the estimated colour pic! double whammy.
Anyone else notice this? Could he have meant 40 SRM (pretty much 20EBC) ?
When I play with amounts of grain to get to 20 EBC it looks about right in the est. pic, but my beers are going darker anyway.
Chiller sent me a great message re colour in software estimating 20-30% over. Is this a common consensus?
Cheers
So here goes. I have been noticing that any beers I make, that are darker than a light colour, are noticeably darker than my pic in Beersmith predicts. Maybe the light ones are too, but its subtle enough that I cant tell.
I know I have the specs right in my malts and everything is set to EBC.
I am going to have a crack at a Vale Ale clone (if anyone saw that thread recently) and the brewer told me 40EBC.
That looks (in my Beersmith) way darker than the real thing, and what scares me even more is that my beers are coming out darker than in the estimated colour pic! double whammy.
Anyone else notice this? Could he have meant 40 SRM (pretty much 20EBC) ?
When I play with amounts of grain to get to 20 EBC it looks about right in the est. pic, but my beers are going darker anyway.
Chiller sent me a great message re colour in software estimating 20-30% over. Is this a common consensus?
Cheers