Imperial Stout
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Is there a quick and accurate way to make short beers from the spent grain of high ABV beers? Just made a short beer from the spent grain of a 5 gallon batch of Imperial Stout with 25 pounds of grain and an ABV of 11.2%. For the short beer I added 4 gallons of 165 F water to the spent grain in the MT, let sit 1 hour and got a starting gravity of 1.040, 10 brix. After fermentation got 5.2% ABV. For me that is a short beer!
Is making short beers a function of BeerSmith? If not, can it be? Here is what I did:
Set equipment to 4 gal brew pot, set the type to PM, set the style to a regular version of the style and scale down to a 3 gallon batch. BeerSmith scaled down both the grain and hop quantities. This works OK but the starting gravity (SG) was much higher than the measured SG. To correct this I adjust the scaled down grain bill so the estimated SG equals the measured SG.
This throws the hops / IBU's off so I set the desired IBU to the original recipe. Beersmith then adjusts the hop bill. This method works OK, I think, but takes several steps to do.
Looking to see if there is already a less cumbersome or more accurate way to make short beers using Beersmith that I may have missed.
If making short beers is not already a function of BeerSmith, it should be.
Note: When doing a BeerSmith spell check, why do "words" like IBU and Brix come up as needing to be changed?
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Is making short beers a function of BeerSmith? If not, can it be? Here is what I did:
Set equipment to 4 gal brew pot, set the type to PM, set the style to a regular version of the style and scale down to a 3 gallon batch. BeerSmith scaled down both the grain and hop quantities. This works OK but the starting gravity (SG) was much higher than the measured SG. To correct this I adjust the scaled down grain bill so the estimated SG equals the measured SG.
This throws the hops / IBU's off so I set the desired IBU to the original recipe. Beersmith then adjusts the hop bill. This method works OK, I think, but takes several steps to do.
Looking to see if there is already a less cumbersome or more accurate way to make short beers using Beersmith that I may have missed.
If making short beers is not already a function of BeerSmith, it should be.
Note: When doing a BeerSmith spell check, why do "words" like IBU and Brix come up as needing to be changed?
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