tom_hampton
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Myk and I were having a discussion in the brewing forum. He says that BS2 is using recipe predicted values for calculating priming sugar, and yeast starter additions. I don't have access to my beersmith here at work, but I'm assuming that Myk is correct.
If that's true I think that is a bug. If I go to the trouble of measuring my bottling volume, then Beersmith should calculate my priming sugar addition based on that ACTUAL volume, rather than the predicted volume (batch_size - fermenter losses).
The same thing is true for a yeast starter. If my measured_batch_size and Actual OG are different than the "predicted" values, then my yeast starter should be adjusted accordingly.
I'm not sure if there are any other possible culprits, but any addition that is calculated based on brew-process results, should always prefer the "measured" parameters for input, and only use the "estimated" parameters when the measured are not available (set to 0.0 or something?).
If that's true I think that is a bug. If I go to the trouble of measuring my bottling volume, then Beersmith should calculate my priming sugar addition based on that ACTUAL volume, rather than the predicted volume (batch_size - fermenter losses).
The same thing is true for a yeast starter. If my measured_batch_size and Actual OG are different than the "predicted" values, then my yeast starter should be adjusted accordingly.
I'm not sure if there are any other possible culprits, but any addition that is calculated based on brew-process results, should always prefer the "measured" parameters for input, and only use the "estimated" parameters when the measured are not available (set to 0.0 or something?).