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  1. troyh

    (DONE) Pre-boil gravity in brew steps

    I like that the brew steps now tell me the boil volume I need. Could it also give me the gravity I should have? I know it's simple math for me to do manually, but it'd be nice to have it there.
  2. troyh

    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency

    Re: Conversion efficiency Ok, this is all so much more clear to me now. Thank you! And the difference between pre-boil and end of kettle efficiency because of the sugars even bit me on my previous batch (I'm so used to measuring gravity only after adding sugars since I care about OG at the...
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency

    Re: Conversion efficiency I don't understand the difference between the conversion efficiency and pre-boil efficiency. After reading the first half of LarryBrewer's post, it all made sense to me, but the 2nd half confused me again. When it made sense to me, the conversion efficiency is what I'd...
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency

    Re: Conversion efficiency Ah! This is what I was originally doing on my first brew sessions and I was getting 98-99% efficiencies and I thought that couldn't be right. :shock: So I kept using the Expected Value hint value. If I put my first running gravity (1.087) in with the amount of mash...
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency

    Re: Conversion efficiency Yes, the 3L is in grain absorption. It estimates 3.2L of water in grain absorption and MLT dead space. The reason it "disappears" in my math is because I'm adding the amount of water put into the BK (18L) and the water taken out of the HLT (11L). The MLT, in the...
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency

    Re: Conversion efficiency Here's the recipe: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... n-pale-ale I'm still confused about the mash volume for conversion efficiency. I have a HERMS system, so here's what I do: I fill the HLT with enough water to cover the HERMS coil inside it. Then I heat...
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency

    Re: Conversion efficiency My mill's gap is 0.035" (I assume you meant 0.040", not 0.4"! :o ), which is the factory setting and I just checked it again last night trying to diagnose this. My thermometers are calibrated against a Thermapen. I'm mashing for 60 minutes but this batch was a...
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency

    Re: Conversion efficiency Kaiser, I am doing that. The other thread involved sugar, a different recipe than the one I am doing now. My gravity reading is 1.048 and I used 31L of water, just as the mash calculator told me to do. That results in an 88% conversion efficiency.
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency

    I'm really stuck on this conversion efficiency calculator. I have a recipe with an OG of 1.057 and it expects my pre-boil gravity to be 1.042. If I enter the expected value of 31L into the volume and 1.042 in the gravity field, it gives me 75% conversion efficiency. Is that correct? According to...
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency and sugar

    Re: Conversion efficiency and sugar Yeah, the site does the right thing, I assumed it wouldn't and I had to count the sugar's gravity to make it work. :oops:
  11. troyh

    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency and sugar

    Re: Conversion efficiency and sugar Everything I've read says that it's near impossible to stir the wort enough to consistently mix it and my experience backs that up. Or maybe I'm just a lousy stirrer! I am using a refractometer. I get consistent results whenever I use it except for pre-boil...
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    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency and sugar

    Re: Conversion efficiency and sugar I added the sugar at the start of boil, stirred it in and then took a gravity reading. I can't seem to get consistent gravity readings before the boil starts because of the stratification in the wort. Glad you're accounting for that in the first 2...
  13. troyh

    (RESOLVED) Conversion efficiency and sugar

    I just brewed a recipe that used cane sugar and from what I can tell, the conversion efficiency calculation doesn't factor out the sugar, so my conversion efficiency (actually, all the efficiencies) is higher than it really is since you're always going to get 100% conversion for sugar. It seems...
  14. troyh

    Set fermentables by %

    Clever!
  15. troyh

    Set fermentables by %

    I prefer to enter recipes by % of each fermentable, not by weight. So I'd like to be able to fix the OG and batch size and enter fermentables by percentage. Right now, I have to go back and forth through each fermentable adjusting the weight until the percentages and OG come out right. It works...

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