MartinFa
Apprentice
I occasionally do brews into which I'll add juice into the secondary - e.g. 1.4 litres of Rhubarb juice (to a 22 litre batch) that I prepared earlier from fresh rhubarb. There are a number of impacts of doing this on the BS3 software...
1) The software is unable (I believe) to make allowance for the additional volume of water. To make up for this, I have to remember to reduce my sparge water by the same amount as the juice I'm adding. I have no means of adjusting the sparge water I actually want to use. I even created a water profile for the juice so I can add that volume of water, but it seems not to be taken into account by BS3.
2) Because the volume into the boil is then less than BS3 calculates, all the calculated figures (efficiency, OG, volumes, ABV) are off and I'm back to manually calculating these.
I guess it's going to be a challenge to incorporate some of these things?
1) The software is unable (I believe) to make allowance for the additional volume of water. To make up for this, I have to remember to reduce my sparge water by the same amount as the juice I'm adding. I have no means of adjusting the sparge water I actually want to use. I even created a water profile for the juice so I can add that volume of water, but it seems not to be taken into account by BS3.
2) Because the volume into the boil is then less than BS3 calculates, all the calculated figures (efficiency, OG, volumes, ABV) are off and I'm back to manually calculating these.
I guess it's going to be a challenge to incorporate some of these things?