Goose
Apprentice
This is something that has been bugging me for some time. When I brew a beer I assume between 80% and 85% mash efficiency depending on the beer and write my recipes as such. When I have the kettle full, I measure the gravity with my refractometer and plug that number converted to degrees Plato (I work in Plato rather than SG) into the measured pre-boil volume area. BeerSmith always tells me my mash efficiency is well over 100%. For example I made a Tripel the other day and it told me that the mash efficiency was 128%, which is obviously impossible.
I have been doing the calculations manually to determine what the kettle full gravity is to achieve my post-boil gravity and ignore what BeerSmith is telling me. I have my equipment profile set for a 15 gallon keggle and use no temperature adjustment for the the thermal mass of the mash tun since I heat the mash liquor in the MT.
I have looked for a way to adjust the estimated mash efficiency so that it more closely tracks what I am actually seeing but have not found a way to do it.
Any suggestions? I am using BeerSmith 3.
A a sidebar, I have my brewhouse efficiency set to 80% and am always right in the ballpark on this.
............Goose Steingass
AHA Governing Committee Member
I have been doing the calculations manually to determine what the kettle full gravity is to achieve my post-boil gravity and ignore what BeerSmith is telling me. I have my equipment profile set for a 15 gallon keggle and use no temperature adjustment for the the thermal mass of the mash tun since I heat the mash liquor in the MT.
I have looked for a way to adjust the estimated mash efficiency so that it more closely tracks what I am actually seeing but have not found a way to do it.
Any suggestions? I am using BeerSmith 3.
A a sidebar, I have my brewhouse efficiency set to 80% and am always right in the ballpark on this.
............Goose Steingass
AHA Governing Committee Member