Hello everyone. I am a new brewer. I have been trying to reconcile the Beer Smith Water calculations against the Grainfather Software. This turned out to be quite a bit of an adventure. I am an engineer... so I typically "go all the way" towards figuring things out.
I just finished an article about 1) how the Beer Smith 3.0.x Water Volume calculations work and 2) my spreadsheet version which I built to figure out the calculation. I don't think that my answers are perfect, but they are close. Certainly close enough to help you understand the logic.
I posted the article on my IoT Blog https://iotexpert.com/beer-smith-water-volume-calculator/ but only because it was easier to edit there. I would be happy to have the stuff here. The spreadsheet with the calculations is available on GitHub at https://github.com/iotexpert/Beer
The article is focused on the HOW of the calculations and not very much of the WHY. I can guess as to the why, but I have only brewed 26 batches... so Im brand new.
That being said, I hope that it helps in your understanding.
If you find errors please post them here and Ill fix them.
To the forum powers that be... if there is a way to transfer the article here that would be better I am totally fine with that.
Alan
I just finished an article about 1) how the Beer Smith 3.0.x Water Volume calculations work and 2) my spreadsheet version which I built to figure out the calculation. I don't think that my answers are perfect, but they are close. Certainly close enough to help you understand the logic.
I posted the article on my IoT Blog https://iotexpert.com/beer-smith-water-volume-calculator/ but only because it was easier to edit there. I would be happy to have the stuff here. The spreadsheet with the calculations is available on GitHub at https://github.com/iotexpert/Beer
The article is focused on the HOW of the calculations and not very much of the WHY. I can guess as to the why, but I have only brewed 26 batches... so Im brand new.
That being said, I hope that it helps in your understanding.
If you find errors please post them here and Ill fix them.
To the forum powers that be... if there is a way to transfer the article here that would be better I am totally fine with that.
Alan