When building my recipe in BeerSmith 3, I couldn't find my sole fermentable (Briess CBW Munich DME) in the database, so I had to add it, copying another that I -thought- was similar. The potential was set to 1.035, which I now believe was the problem.
But I don't understand how to add that into BeerSmith, bsaed upon Briess technical sheet. They don't have a field that simply says "Potential" or whatnot, and of course they have a table of several gravities and the appropriate amount of product to add. I wish I'd confirmed BeerSmith's numbers against that, but that's just a valuable lesson learned there.
Today I've been playing around with that "Potential" field in my recipe's fermentable, to see if I can use that to force BeerSmith to predict an OG closer to what I ended up with.
I can get it to where BeerSmith almost predicts the gravity I ended up with, however I can't add a Potential higher than 1.046 in that fermentable (no matter what I add, it reverts back to 1.046), and that still doesn't get me quite there. It now predicts an OG of 1.084, which is closer to what I ended up with, but my brews are -never- that far off from BeerSmith. Of course I acknowledge there's a first time for everything.
Any advice/insight would be welcome. To be clear, I love this software, and I remain completely supportive of it. I picked up BS3 during the pre-sale, as there was no question I was going to upgrade.
But I don't understand how to add that into BeerSmith, bsaed upon Briess technical sheet. They don't have a field that simply says "Potential" or whatnot, and of course they have a table of several gravities and the appropriate amount of product to add. I wish I'd confirmed BeerSmith's numbers against that, but that's just a valuable lesson learned there.
Today I've been playing around with that "Potential" field in my recipe's fermentable, to see if I can use that to force BeerSmith to predict an OG closer to what I ended up with.
I can get it to where BeerSmith almost predicts the gravity I ended up with, however I can't add a Potential higher than 1.046 in that fermentable (no matter what I add, it reverts back to 1.046), and that still doesn't get me quite there. It now predicts an OG of 1.084, which is closer to what I ended up with, but my brews are -never- that far off from BeerSmith. Of course I acknowledge there's a first time for everything.
Any advice/insight would be welcome. To be clear, I love this software, and I remain completely supportive of it. I picked up BS3 during the pre-sale, as there was no question I was going to upgrade.