JustBeKind
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I have set up my equipment in both Beersmith and Brewers Friend and have the same problem with each of them.
I write in a recipe that comes up at, say 1.050 OG for 21 litres in the fermenter. Due to dead spaces etc, I know that I will need 24 litres in the kettle at the end of boil whereas others will need 22, 26 etc so clearly we will need to put different quantities of grain in to get different volumes of boiled wort at the same OG. I thought putting my equipment profile in took account of that but it doesn't seem to.
I played around today with both Beersmith and Brewer's Friend expecting if I put a huge dead space of say 10 litres it would affect the OG of the wort as I am using the same grain to make 10 litres of extra wort. However, although both correctly adjust the volume of water I need they leave the OG the same. Surely, if I have a 10 litre dead space, I am making 50% more wort with the same grain so the software has to identify that the OG will drop considerably. One of the main reasons I wanted to use software was so that if I use someone else's recipe, I can tailor it to my equipment. Currently, I just add 20%ish to reflect my losses, but surely the software should do that for me?
Obviously the same applies to IBUs with hops.
I write in a recipe that comes up at, say 1.050 OG for 21 litres in the fermenter. Due to dead spaces etc, I know that I will need 24 litres in the kettle at the end of boil whereas others will need 22, 26 etc so clearly we will need to put different quantities of grain in to get different volumes of boiled wort at the same OG. I thought putting my equipment profile in took account of that but it doesn't seem to.
I played around today with both Beersmith and Brewer's Friend expecting if I put a huge dead space of say 10 litres it would affect the OG of the wort as I am using the same grain to make 10 litres of extra wort. However, although both correctly adjust the volume of water I need they leave the OG the same. Surely, if I have a 10 litre dead space, I am making 50% more wort with the same grain so the software has to identify that the OG will drop considerably. One of the main reasons I wanted to use software was so that if I use someone else's recipe, I can tailor it to my equipment. Currently, I just add 20%ish to reflect my losses, but surely the software should do that for me?
Obviously the same applies to IBUs with hops.