All,
After many extract brews, going to be starting my first all grain brew shortly, and have a question on how to set up my recipe in Brewer's friend. I am starting with 2.5 gallon batch size for a couple reasons, but one primary reason is that I am limited on boil size due to my Gigawort electric brew kettle (4.4 gal capacity). For my recipe, the adjusted boil size is 3.9 gallon for a 60 minute boil.
I'm worried about boil overs being so close to my brew kettle capacity, and I'm considering holding back a half gallon of water and topping up with this when I move the wort to the fermenter. This would give me about a gallon of head space in my boil kettle and some relief against boil over. The question is - how do I incorporate the top-up in Brewer's friend? Unlike Brewsmith, I can't find a place to add top-up water. It would be nice to be able to do that, so my water volumes are correct and my IBU calcs are more accurate, but I don't know how to do this. Should be a way to do this because this is a common practice in extract brewing.
Thanks, Gary
After many extract brews, going to be starting my first all grain brew shortly, and have a question on how to set up my recipe in Brewer's friend. I am starting with 2.5 gallon batch size for a couple reasons, but one primary reason is that I am limited on boil size due to my Gigawort electric brew kettle (4.4 gal capacity). For my recipe, the adjusted boil size is 3.9 gallon for a 60 minute boil.
I'm worried about boil overs being so close to my brew kettle capacity, and I'm considering holding back a half gallon of water and topping up with this when I move the wort to the fermenter. This would give me about a gallon of head space in my boil kettle and some relief against boil over. The question is - how do I incorporate the top-up in Brewer's friend? Unlike Brewsmith, I can't find a place to add top-up water. It would be nice to be able to do that, so my water volumes are correct and my IBU calcs are more accurate, but I don't know how to do this. Should be a way to do this because this is a common practice in extract brewing.
Thanks, Gary