First off, I love BeerSmith. I've been using it for 2-3 years now and it's absolutely instrumental in my brewing process. This weekend I brewed an all grain Belgian Stout that uses liquid Belgian candi sugar in the boil. I generally monitor my run-off with a refractometer to see how my pre-boil gravity is tracking as I get close to the target volume. Unfortunately BeerSmith included the candi sugar in the pre-boil gravity (i.e., "with all grains/extracts added"). At first I thought I'd WAY undershot my pre-boil gravity, but when I hit my post-boil OG pretty much spot-on I realized what it had done. I went into BeerSmith and removed the candi sugar, and sure enough the pre-boil gravity based just on the sugars from the grains was what I'd have expected.
Is there any way to add sugars for use in the boil without having them included in the pre-boil gravity estimate? Actually I know a partial answer, and that's to flag them as "Add After Boil", but of course that screws up the instructions. Instead is there any way to specify that these sugars should be calculated only as part of the boil, and ideally even specify when they should be added to the boil. I prefer to add these types of sugars late in the boil just as many do with LME/DME additions. Hopefully I'm just missing a setting somewhere.
Thanks much for the great application and any tips on how I might solve this in BeerSmith!
Scott
Is there any way to add sugars for use in the boil without having them included in the pre-boil gravity estimate? Actually I know a partial answer, and that's to flag them as "Add After Boil", but of course that screws up the instructions. Instead is there any way to specify that these sugars should be calculated only as part of the boil, and ideally even specify when they should be added to the boil. I prefer to add these types of sugars late in the boil just as many do with LME/DME additions. Hopefully I'm just missing a setting somewhere.
Thanks much for the great application and any tips on how I might solve this in BeerSmith!
Scott