GCG Brewing
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This past Christmas, I received a Brewcraft Dry Irish Stout kit. While I normally do all grain, I am not opposed to brewing some beer "newbie style" in the warmth of my kitchen!
Anyway, the sheet claimed I would get a OG of 1.053, which I later learned was wrong when I emailed the company (I got 1.046, and hand calculated that I should have probably only got about 1.042 based on yields in John Palmer's How To Brew). To make a long story short, the company claims the recipe was actually designed to be at 1.046, and had no explanation why the sheet had the 1.053 on it.
I punched this recipe into BeerSmith, and even with me changing the yield for the dry malt to 100%, and all 4 specialty grains to 85%, it still says the Estimated OG should be 1.040. Even weirder, to the right of that where it has the "Measured OG" it autofills it with the right gravity of 1.046! I am having a hard time trusting the numbers I am getting from the program.
Anyway, the sheet claimed I would get a OG of 1.053, which I later learned was wrong when I emailed the company (I got 1.046, and hand calculated that I should have probably only got about 1.042 based on yields in John Palmer's How To Brew). To make a long story short, the company claims the recipe was actually designed to be at 1.046, and had no explanation why the sheet had the 1.053 on it.
I punched this recipe into BeerSmith, and even with me changing the yield for the dry malt to 100%, and all 4 specialty grains to 85%, it still says the Estimated OG should be 1.040. Even weirder, to the right of that where it has the "Measured OG" it autofills it with the right gravity of 1.046! I am having a hard time trusting the numbers I am getting from the program.