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Hello -
First off, thanks for making a great product. I recently tried ProMash just to see what it was like and I was baffled by it. Beer Smith is so easy to use!
I do have a problem, however. I have done a series of extract brews and have been refining my numbers in terms of boil loss and trub/kettle loss. So, I have been making adjustments as needed. I realized recently, though, that these adjustments are not factored in to the original gravity estimate--even though they are factored into the boil volume. It seems no matter what you do to the boil volume, the original gravity remains the same. I saw a post recently that explained this is because OG is a factor of brewhouse efficiency. But it seems that brewhouse efficiency is fixed at 78% for extract brews. This is a problem for me because I try to leave as much trub as I can and don't tilt the kettle to get the last drop. I have about 1.4 gallons of wort and trub left behind. This means my actually OGs are much lower than I expect.
What can I do to make my OG estimates more accurate? Is there any way to override the fixed extract efficiency of 78%?
Thanks for your help,
Chris
First off, thanks for making a great product. I recently tried ProMash just to see what it was like and I was baffled by it. Beer Smith is so easy to use!
I do have a problem, however. I have done a series of extract brews and have been refining my numbers in terms of boil loss and trub/kettle loss. So, I have been making adjustments as needed. I realized recently, though, that these adjustments are not factored in to the original gravity estimate--even though they are factored into the boil volume. It seems no matter what you do to the boil volume, the original gravity remains the same. I saw a post recently that explained this is because OG is a factor of brewhouse efficiency. But it seems that brewhouse efficiency is fixed at 78% for extract brews. This is a problem for me because I try to leave as much trub as I can and don't tilt the kettle to get the last drop. I have about 1.4 gallons of wort and trub left behind. This means my actually OGs are much lower than I expect.
What can I do to make my OG estimates more accurate? Is there any way to override the fixed extract efficiency of 78%?
Thanks for your help,
Chris