I bought an extract kit just before I moved to all grain from Rouge Beers. It is their Shakespeare Stout. The kit came with the following:
Base:
3 lbs brewers gold DME
2 lbs dark DME
1 lb dark belgian candi sugar
Specialty Grains:
1 lb pale 2-row malt
.5 lb flaked oats
1 lb chocolate malt (I inputted this into beer smith as US chocolate malt)
.75 lb roasted barley
.25 crystal malt
4 oz of cascade (2 oz @ 60 2 oz @ 15)
Inputting this into BeerSmith, the OG is 1.052. The SRM and IBU are nearly spot on to what the Rouge recipe shows. The OG, according to Rouge's brew sheet is 1.070. If I change Beer Smith to give me the recipe so I hit 1.070, the fermentables are clearly increased. I understand that the specialty grains are grains that steep and I won't get as much out of them, but knowing this is an extract kit which includes instructions to steep those grains, I wonder why BeerSmith shows the OG to be so far off.
It almost seems as though BeerSmith is way more accurate than this brew sheet but it really makes me wonder.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Base:
3 lbs brewers gold DME
2 lbs dark DME
1 lb dark belgian candi sugar
Specialty Grains:
1 lb pale 2-row malt
.5 lb flaked oats
1 lb chocolate malt (I inputted this into beer smith as US chocolate malt)
.75 lb roasted barley
.25 crystal malt
4 oz of cascade (2 oz @ 60 2 oz @ 15)
Inputting this into BeerSmith, the OG is 1.052. The SRM and IBU are nearly spot on to what the Rouge recipe shows. The OG, according to Rouge's brew sheet is 1.070. If I change Beer Smith to give me the recipe so I hit 1.070, the fermentables are clearly increased. I understand that the specialty grains are grains that steep and I won't get as much out of them, but knowing this is an extract kit which includes instructions to steep those grains, I wonder why BeerSmith shows the OG to be so far off.
It almost seems as though BeerSmith is way more accurate than this brew sheet but it really makes me wonder.
Any feedback is appreciated.