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adding extract potential to new grain ingredients

Fred

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Hi, I'm using malts from a local floor malting here in South England (Tuckers). I would like to add their extract potential into Beersmith, but all I can find on Beersmith is potential extract in Lintner and expected gravity.

The maltsters here give me extract 305-310 for Maris Otter.
Many thanks
 
The designation you have is how many liters of 1.001 SG wort that 1 kg of malt will yield.

BeerSmith is looking for the yield of 1 lb of malt to make 1 gallon of wort. In both cases. we will deduct the 1.000 value and just use the numbers to the right of the decimal, as points.

It's a pretty simple conversion.

1 lb = 0.4536 kg
1 gallon = 3.785 liters

Yield = (extract * 0.4536) / 3.785

Yield = 37.15 points = 1.037

 
Thank you> So how do I calculate diastatic power from there, what is indicated in Beersmith in Lintner? Does the diastatic power have a direct impact on my extraction predictions in Beersmith?
 
As of this writing, BeerSmith doesn't use the diastatic power of the malt to predict gravity. A future update may include diastatic potential, but I'm not privy to any plans. BeerSmith predicts gravity based on the Brewhouse Efficiency of your system. Please read up on this (plenty of threads and stickies on this site) as it is different than Mash Efficiency.
 
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