I am continually second guessing just about every calculation in the Mash Guidelines dialog box.
Today, I got completely surprised by a quality check of mash gravities during my mash. I was brewing a Cream Ale with 12.91 lbs of grist and a liquor/grist ratio of 1.7 qt/lb. (H View attachment 16588 igh, I know, but it keeps my HERMS happy.) Midway during the mash, I noted an exceptionally low mash gravity (which I calculate manually outside of Brewers Friend using Braukaiser's formulas here: https://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php/Understanding_Efficiency). I was suspecting a serious mash problem when I discovered my strike water volume was about TWO GALLONS too high.
The recipe editor suggested 7.2 gallons of strike water. I guess I should have intuitively known this was way too large for this small grain bill. In fact, for the LGR of 1.7 qt/lb, with 12.91 lbs of grist, the CORRECT volume of strike water was closer to 5.5 gallons. (12.91 lbs @1.7 qt/lb ~ 5.5 gallons of strike water.)
I've seen similar problems with this dialog box with respect to calculating initial strike water temperature.
I have a theory that the javascript event listeners aren't being processed correctly. Even reviewing the recipe online this morning I was unable to force the application to correctly calculate the appropriate volume. I tried tabbing back and forth between fields and event changed the LGR, but the text input field still said 7.2 gallons.
I WAS able to fix the problem by deleting that mash event and adding a new one with the same parameters. This time the editor correctly reported the appropriate strike volume.
Any insights would be appreciated.
Today, I got completely surprised by a quality check of mash gravities during my mash. I was brewing a Cream Ale with 12.91 lbs of grist and a liquor/grist ratio of 1.7 qt/lb. (H View attachment 16588 igh, I know, but it keeps my HERMS happy.) Midway during the mash, I noted an exceptionally low mash gravity (which I calculate manually outside of Brewers Friend using Braukaiser's formulas here: https://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php/Understanding_Efficiency). I was suspecting a serious mash problem when I discovered my strike water volume was about TWO GALLONS too high.
The recipe editor suggested 7.2 gallons of strike water. I guess I should have intuitively known this was way too large for this small grain bill. In fact, for the LGR of 1.7 qt/lb, with 12.91 lbs of grist, the CORRECT volume of strike water was closer to 5.5 gallons. (12.91 lbs @1.7 qt/lb ~ 5.5 gallons of strike water.)
I've seen similar problems with this dialog box with respect to calculating initial strike water temperature.
I have a theory that the javascript event listeners aren't being processed correctly. Even reviewing the recipe online this morning I was unable to force the application to correctly calculate the appropriate volume. I tried tabbing back and forth between fields and event changed the LGR, but the text input field still said 7.2 gallons.
I WAS able to fix the problem by deleting that mash event and adding a new one with the same parameters. This time the editor correctly reported the appropriate strike volume.
Any insights would be appreciated.
