pmastello
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Someone please help me, I am having a lot of trouble converting a recipe from brewing classic styles to my equipment.
Maybe its getting late but I cant get it to make any sense to me.
So I am trying to get my numbers for Janets Brown Ale to line up.
I have an equipment profile setup with the parameters for Jamils equip (70% eff, etc) which I input the recipe, but beersmith calculates the OG to be much higher (5points) and IBUs are much lower (I am using rager formula, as is Jamil).
Then I use beersmith to change the recipe by OG and IBUs and I use the convert button to select my 20L braumeister (80% eff) settings, while keeping OG, IBU etc. But I am not happy with my results! My percentages of malts go off in different directions, hop amounts get changed in different directions. What I am seeing doesn't make sense.
So should I blindly trust Beersmith? Do what it tells me and be done with it? Having never tried JBA, how do I know if my IBUs and OG were as they should be?
Maybe its getting late but I cant get it to make any sense to me.
So I am trying to get my numbers for Janets Brown Ale to line up.
I have an equipment profile setup with the parameters for Jamils equip (70% eff, etc) which I input the recipe, but beersmith calculates the OG to be much higher (5points) and IBUs are much lower (I am using rager formula, as is Jamil).
Then I use beersmith to change the recipe by OG and IBUs and I use the convert button to select my 20L braumeister (80% eff) settings, while keeping OG, IBU etc. But I am not happy with my results! My percentages of malts go off in different directions, hop amounts get changed in different directions. What I am seeing doesn't make sense.
So should I blindly trust Beersmith? Do what it tells me and be done with it? Having never tried JBA, how do I know if my IBUs and OG were as they should be?