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Adjusting Hydrometer Readings for Temperature when Beer Brewing

by Brad Smith on August 1, 2018 · 4 comments

A lot of brewers may not be aware but when you take a hydrometer reading you do need to adjust for the temperature of the sample. Hydrometers are calibrated to work at a certain temperature, and readings taken outside of that range can be low or high depending on the temperature. Hydrometer Calibration Temperature Hydrometers […]

Scaling a Beer Recipe in BeerSmith – Brewing Other People’s Recipes

by Brad Smith on October 9, 2015 · 2 comments

Scaling a beer recipe is a powerful feature in BeerSmith that can be used for adapting another recipe to your equipment, creating a larger or smaller recipe or even adjusting your efficiency numbers. Most often you are scaling a recipe to match your equipment setup – but this article is going to cover several possible […]