philm63
Grandmaster Brewer
There are threads going back a ways on this forum with various bits and pieces of this topic which I still find confusing. I know BS2 defaults to the Tinseth model, while some recipes found on-line or in magazines use Rager.
Is one "better" than the other, or is it meaningless to assign "better" or "worse" to either one? From what I've been able to gather, there are varying opinions regarding the accuracy of each, and folks are using both with good success, but I'd like to get a fresh take on this, and here's my MO:
I was thinking of changing the Hop Utilization Factor in my Equipment Profile to tweak how my IBUs are calculated as I was assuming, based on a recent brew, that I was under-hopping, but was advised it would likely be better to leave that set at the default 100% and just add more hops next time (there are plenty of reasons why this was good advice).
But then I got to thinking about the models used to make the IBU calculations; why does BS2 use Tinseth as its default? Is there something that appealed to the software developers or is it simply a more accurate way of calculating IBUs?
Is one "better" than the other, or is it meaningless to assign "better" or "worse" to either one? From what I've been able to gather, there are varying opinions regarding the accuracy of each, and folks are using both with good success, but I'd like to get a fresh take on this, and here's my MO:
I was thinking of changing the Hop Utilization Factor in my Equipment Profile to tweak how my IBUs are calculated as I was assuming, based on a recent brew, that I was under-hopping, but was advised it would likely be better to leave that set at the default 100% and just add more hops next time (there are plenty of reasons why this was good advice).
But then I got to thinking about the models used to make the IBU calculations; why does BS2 use Tinseth as its default? Is there something that appealed to the software developers or is it simply a more accurate way of calculating IBUs?