With extract I never worried about boil off, it was what it was. (thanks for that, I think)Īfter playing around a bit with BS I figured out what it wanted for numbers and why. I have been on a many year hiatus from home brewing and the restart ( and this place, for better or worse) has changed a few of my old ways. I even broke down and bought plastic fermenters w/ spigots and used Star san for the first time on this brew. Hell, I still use the classic Windows theme on it, I'm a bit old school I guess. First BS3 doesn't work on Win XP, yeah I still use XP. Once you get your profiles set and refined over a couple of brews, it will make your results a lot more predictable. Now as to some practices such as splitting your extract additions, that is handled in the recipe itself.Īs to whether brewing software such as BeerSmith suits your needs, it may be a bit overkill for extract brewing calculations but if you like to design your own recipes it will make that process a lot easier. I have three vessels which were pre-marked and only one of them was close to accurate. If you have pre-etched markings, I would recommend that you check the accuracy. I show the method I use for making a measuring stick here: Developing a profile for the Anvil 6.5G Brewing System - Part 1. If you have not made a measuring stick for your kettle, I would recommend that you do so to get good volume readings. ![]() It will be close enough to start but if you have actual numbers from past recipes to use, this would be more accurate. Measure the volume after the boil stops and the difference times 4 is your boil off rate per hour. ![]() If you are not sure of your boil off, then measure a known amount of water in your kettle and boil for 15 minutes. Adding your elevation and total whirlpool time will help adjust your hop utilization when it comes to calculating an IBU number. Now the only things you need to really concern yourself with is your batch volume (how much you want to end up with in the fermenter), your standard boil time (you can change this in the recipe as needed), boil off rate, loss to trub and chiller (all post boil volume losses), any top off water to the fermenter, and fermenter loss. This should help make the process a bit simpler. Since you are doing extract with steeping grains, make sure you set the type to 'extract', which will drop out the sections which are strictly for all-grain brewers. Start either by selecting a pre-made equipment profile which best matches the size of your system or by just creating a new profile. ![]() There are videos on Brad's site and on YouTube about setting up equipment profiles, but most of those are geared towards all-grain brewers. The equipment profile really defines your process. There is an equipment wizard which will walk you through the steps of making a profile which takes some of the guesswork out. First, I would recommend doing a trial of BS3, being as it is the latest and does offer some more support for building your equipment profile.
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