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re: Homebrewing: Brewing in process thread (with pics)

Posted on 2/25/13 at 4:33 pm to
Posted by swampdawg
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2007
5141 posts
Posted on 2/25/13 at 4:33 pm to
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How did you calculate that your recipe would give you 1062? Beersmith? What is your efficiency set to in the program? Bc unless your brewery efficiency is set to 60/65% you did not get 83% efficiency. You ended up a half gallon short (typically 10 pts a gallon), so lets call that 5 points. So your 5 gallon beer would have been 1057. Based on my calculations 1062 has you at 75% with your recipe which would make 1057 just shy of 70%.

Not knocking your brew at all, more just bored at work trying to figure stuff out.


Maybe he is stating mash efficiency vs. brewhouse efficiency?

Also, I have never done a temperature conversion for a gravity reading. I either chilled it or used a refractometer. Is gravity measurement not at 60 very reliable?
Posted by BugAC
St. George
Member since Oct 2007
53798 posts
Posted on 2/25/13 at 4:49 pm to
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mash efficiency


Mash efficiency is what i'm talking about. Measured with hydrometer just before the boil.

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I have never done a temperature conversion for a gravity reading.


I have to do it, unless i want to wait on my beer to cool down before i boil the wort.
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