I'm new to Beersmith and on both recipes I've entered I get a higher original gravity than what the recipe I found on the Internet?
Example...I brewed an ESB this morning...the Internet recipe said my OG should be 1.060. When I entered the grain bill into BeerSmith, it calculated my post boil gravity to be 1.074. I hit it pretty close at 1.076. I also hit my BeerSmith pre-boil estimated gravity of 1.057, I had 1.055.
Does this just mean that my efficiency was higher than the recipe creator? Just in case....I added more water and got my OG down to 1.060.
As I write this note, I see that I can tell BeerSmith what I want my OG to be and then it will scale back the grains. I'm guessing I keep playing the "top-off" game as I tune BeerSmith to my technique. Then once I'm dialed in...I can use it to scale back the OG/ingredients so I hit the OG.
Thanks for any input.
Example...I brewed an ESB this morning...the Internet recipe said my OG should be 1.060. When I entered the grain bill into BeerSmith, it calculated my post boil gravity to be 1.074. I hit it pretty close at 1.076. I also hit my BeerSmith pre-boil estimated gravity of 1.057, I had 1.055.
Does this just mean that my efficiency was higher than the recipe creator? Just in case....I added more water and got my OG down to 1.060.
As I write this note, I see that I can tell BeerSmith what I want my OG to be and then it will scale back the grains. I'm guessing I keep playing the "top-off" game as I tune BeerSmith to my technique. Then once I'm dialed in...I can use it to scale back the OG/ingredients so I hit the OG.
Thanks for any input.