I am confused ? at least I certainly need some assistance understanding a Braggot recipe Irecently made and how to use BeerSmith.
My ?profile? is a BIAB profile, estimated BH efficiency was 70% and estimated mash efficiency was 76.1%. Somehow BeerSmith computed this mash efficiency ? where and how?
My notion was that I wanted 5.7 gallon batch size. On the design view the estimated pre-boil volume was 9.1 gallon. Using the Water tab I was instructed to add 9.88 gallon of water. After the boil and cool down I still had about 8.6 gallon of wort before adding the honey. Way too much wort for what was supposed to be a 5.7 gallon batch size. What happened ? how did I flub the water amount?
The grain bill was 9.63 pounds and 8# 4 oz of honey. Added together it came to the 18.1 pounds of grains. Am I to assume that in the Design view the honey accounts for the essential equivalent of the same amount of grain? Is that true?
The Go-Ferm amount was computed to be 29.1 g. On balance, my other recipes call for about 15g ? with BeerSmith doing the calculations and using the ?automatic? calculation. My own worksheet which has embodied the original Advanced Nutrients in Meadmaking paper published by Travis Blount-Elliott looks like the amount of Go-Ferm should be in the single digits. Go-Ferm is inexpensive for the home brewer but the question still is how come this recipe had double the amount or Go-Ferm that was recommended for other recipes and almost four time the amount recommended ty the Travis Blount-Elliott equations?
My ?profile? is a BIAB profile, estimated BH efficiency was 70% and estimated mash efficiency was 76.1%. Somehow BeerSmith computed this mash efficiency ? where and how?
My notion was that I wanted 5.7 gallon batch size. On the design view the estimated pre-boil volume was 9.1 gallon. Using the Water tab I was instructed to add 9.88 gallon of water. After the boil and cool down I still had about 8.6 gallon of wort before adding the honey. Way too much wort for what was supposed to be a 5.7 gallon batch size. What happened ? how did I flub the water amount?
The grain bill was 9.63 pounds and 8# 4 oz of honey. Added together it came to the 18.1 pounds of grains. Am I to assume that in the Design view the honey accounts for the essential equivalent of the same amount of grain? Is that true?
The Go-Ferm amount was computed to be 29.1 g. On balance, my other recipes call for about 15g ? with BeerSmith doing the calculations and using the ?automatic? calculation. My own worksheet which has embodied the original Advanced Nutrients in Meadmaking paper published by Travis Blount-Elliott looks like the amount of Go-Ferm should be in the single digits. Go-Ferm is inexpensive for the home brewer but the question still is how come this recipe had double the amount or Go-Ferm that was recommended for other recipes and almost four time the amount recommended ty the Travis Blount-Elliott equations?