chiller
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I enjoy historic beers but often they are only in grain bills of %. For those that are not familiar with Beersmith 2 there is a very simply way to enter the percentages into a recipe and with a couple of mouse clicks have a ready to roll recipe.
Eg. If you look at this chart of grain bills for 1915 Porters etc you can enter the percentages and scale the values to reflect your equipment profile.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Y5jvFLq41k/Tgnn..._beers_1915.JPG
[1] Add a new recipe
[2] Make certain you are set up with your standard equipment profile you always use.
[3] Enter the malt/sugar % values as Kgs -- 10% enter as 10 kgs -- .5% as .5 kgs
For the time being ignore the gravity and the colour.
Select the [Adjust Gravity Icon] on the top row or click the Estimated gravity slider.
Change the highlighted gravity which will be very high to the actual value of the beer.
Click ok and return to your recipe.
Due to rounding there may be slight % differences but that will not cause you a problem.
Now you have a malt bill for your equipment in actual kgs and based on the gravity you want.
With historic beers the hopping rates can present a challenge based on the relationship of measuring types used.
Possibly someone here has an easy to use conversion of pounds to quarters or whatever manner the hops were used.
Steve
Eg. If you look at this chart of grain bills for 1915 Porters etc you can enter the percentages and scale the values to reflect your equipment profile.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Y5jvFLq41k/Tgnn..._beers_1915.JPG
[1] Add a new recipe
[2] Make certain you are set up with your standard equipment profile you always use.
[3] Enter the malt/sugar % values as Kgs -- 10% enter as 10 kgs -- .5% as .5 kgs
For the time being ignore the gravity and the colour.
Select the [Adjust Gravity Icon] on the top row or click the Estimated gravity slider.
Change the highlighted gravity which will be very high to the actual value of the beer.
Click ok and return to your recipe.
Due to rounding there may be slight % differences but that will not cause you a problem.
Now you have a malt bill for your equipment in actual kgs and based on the gravity you want.
With historic beers the hopping rates can present a challenge based on the relationship of measuring types used.
Possibly someone here has an easy to use conversion of pounds to quarters or whatever manner the hops were used.
Steve