SleepySamSlim
Grandmaster Brewer
Need a little feedback before I commit on this
So I'm doing mainly extract + steeping grains - partial boil of about 3.4gal. I then top up the primary to five gallons prior to fermenting.
However after leaving behind a bit of brew going from primary to secondary -- then drawing at least three samples (OG - end of primary FG - and a TG from the secondary) -- and leaving a bit behind in the secondary ..... a lot of times I'm left with 4.25 - to 4.5gal at the end.
So I'm going to tweak the next recipe for a final volume of 5.3gal. In BeerSmith you can use the scale function - and the result is BeerSmith basically increases the malts to make up for the dilution. Or you can alter your equipment setting (create a new profile) and then tweak up the grains / extract to get back to where you were at the lower batch volume.
Any pros - cons - warnings on doing this ?? Gotta brew on Friday !
So I'm doing mainly extract + steeping grains - partial boil of about 3.4gal. I then top up the primary to five gallons prior to fermenting.
However after leaving behind a bit of brew going from primary to secondary -- then drawing at least three samples (OG - end of primary FG - and a TG from the secondary) -- and leaving a bit behind in the secondary ..... a lot of times I'm left with 4.25 - to 4.5gal at the end.
So I'm going to tweak the next recipe for a final volume of 5.3gal. In BeerSmith you can use the scale function - and the result is BeerSmith basically increases the malts to make up for the dilution. Or you can alter your equipment setting (create a new profile) and then tweak up the grains / extract to get back to where you were at the lower batch volume.
Any pros - cons - warnings on doing this ?? Gotta brew on Friday !