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Adjusting a Recipe

cowboy up

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For a number of years I have been brewing 5 gal. batches of all grain beer. I have now moved up to brewing 10 gals. of all grain batch's. My question is can I take my 5 gal. recipes and just double all the recipe amounts, for my 10 gal. brews or do I have to adjust my grain bill?                          Thanks, Cowboy Up.
 
Thanks Beer_Tigger, I have used the scale recipe tool, on some of my 5 gal. recipes and it basically just doubles the recipe. I thought that was to easy without having to make some kind of adjustments. I guess I better be grateful that it is that easy. Thanks again and thank you too Brad on a great program!
 
agreed. We've taken 5 Gal batches and converted to 45 Gal with no issues, using the same percentages.

But more than that, and there is some adjustments that need to be made.  You wouldn't directly scale 5 Gal to 7 BBLs for example.  But since I've never had that need, I'm not sure exactly how you'd do it. I just know from talking to many pro brewers that there is "some" sort of fidgeting to do. 5 to 10 - go ahead and use the tool in Beersmith.
 
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