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OK, so I have the occasional brew that requires a late addition of sugar. The latest was a dubble that added 1lb of dark candi sugar in the last 5 minutes (the previous was a Pliny clone with 1lb of corn sugar).
The problem is this: When I built the recipe, it calculates my "Boil gravity" as 1.044. But that assumes the sugar has been added. But the sugar is a late addition so that should NOT factor into my boil gravity. The first time I ran into this, I "undershot" my gravity so boiled off an additional 30 minutes (or so) to hit my predicted boil gravity. Then I added the sugar, saw my screw-up, and re-added the water that I had boiled off. That sucked.
Of course I can temporarily manually remove the sugar addition to get an accurate prediction of 1.039 but I ought not have to do that. There should be an option to label that as a late addition so it so that it is not factored into the boil gravity.
Surely there is a better way of doing that. I gotta be missing something here.
Attached is the partial recipe noting the discrepancy. One with, and one without the sugar addition:
The problem is this: When I built the recipe, it calculates my "Boil gravity" as 1.044. But that assumes the sugar has been added. But the sugar is a late addition so that should NOT factor into my boil gravity. The first time I ran into this, I "undershot" my gravity so boiled off an additional 30 minutes (or so) to hit my predicted boil gravity. Then I added the sugar, saw my screw-up, and re-added the water that I had boiled off. That sucked.
Of course I can temporarily manually remove the sugar addition to get an accurate prediction of 1.039 but I ought not have to do that. There should be an option to label that as a late addition so it so that it is not factored into the boil gravity.
Surely there is a better way of doing that. I gotta be missing something here.
Attached is the partial recipe noting the discrepancy. One with, and one without the sugar addition:
