TAHammerton
Grandmaster Brewer
I have a question about the little check box for yeast starter.
If you include the yeast starter in the bottling volume you have diluted your wort by that amount, but it does not seem to be taken into account in any of the other numbers. Therefore the bitterness will be less and the O.G. will be less than calculated by Beersmith. If you are making a big beer with a big starter this would amount to quite a large error. Am I correct or have I mis-understood something?
Also I would like to make a mash profile where I have fixed volumes no matter the recipe. I want to mash with 4 gallons and sparge with 4 gallons and let the batch size float. I intend to brew recipes within 1.050 and 1.070 and let the mash thickness vary and final volume vary. But I do not see a way to do this as I cannot edit sparge volume.
Most likely I am not understanding the software - I am still fairly new to it. Any help would be appreciated.
If you include the yeast starter in the bottling volume you have diluted your wort by that amount, but it does not seem to be taken into account in any of the other numbers. Therefore the bitterness will be less and the O.G. will be less than calculated by Beersmith. If you are making a big beer with a big starter this would amount to quite a large error. Am I correct or have I mis-understood something?
Also I would like to make a mash profile where I have fixed volumes no matter the recipe. I want to mash with 4 gallons and sparge with 4 gallons and let the batch size float. I intend to brew recipes within 1.050 and 1.070 and let the mash thickness vary and final volume vary. But I do not see a way to do this as I cannot edit sparge volume.
Most likely I am not understanding the software - I am still fairly new to it. Any help would be appreciated.