

If you have multiple equipment setups or regularly brew different batch sizes you may need more than one equipment profile. The profile can also be used to scale recipes found on the BeerSmithRecipes cloud or online. The equipment profile is used throughout the program to calculate estimates of beer color, bitterness, original gravity and volumes. I havent double verified this with importing into connect yet. Creating an equipment profile for your particular brewing system is an important first step for new users of BeerSmith brewing software. Open the My Recipes folder of Beersmith and select the Profiles section (often found in the menu. To import these into the Beersmith program follow these steps: In Beersmith, select File then Open File and select the profile you downloaded to your desktop. Take all this with a grain of salt but plugging numbers into BS2 are now identical with GF's website. For Beersmith here are the equipment and mash profiles for use with the BREWHA BIAC. And if you mash at some other thickness, the numbers won't align.
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So if I didn't make a mistake you should be able to replicate what GF says with BS as long as your mash thickness is ~1.3qts/#. Brewer: Crabapple Brewers Batch Size: 11.00 gal Style: Robust Porter (12B) Boil Size: 14.50 gal Style Guide: BJCP 2008 Color: 40.1 SRM Equipment: Stainless Kegs (10 Gal/37.8 L) - All Grain Bitterness: 58.1 IBUs Boil Time: 60 min Est OG: 1.070 (17.0° P) Mash Profile: Single Infusion, Full Body, Batch Sparge Est FG: 1.016 SG (4.2° P) Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage ABV: 7. A few other tweaks were made such as efficiency of 75%, my batch size is only 3.5gal (just one guy) and boil off per hour is 0.32gal. Then using those two numbers I tweaked the top up in BS2 to 0.89 gal (so that sparse water would be identical). Design Great Beers Improve Your Brewing Experiance Brew More and Worry Less This version of BeerSmith is in CD.
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Those values were found by solving for dead space from knowing the mass of grain used and the mash/sparge water output. BeerSmith 2 Brewing Software CD Version (GiftsBooksOther). I've been messing with the grainfather website and something I've noticed is that based on their 110v mash/sparge calculator the dead space in the tun is 0.914gal and the behind the scenes mash thickness is 1.297qts/#.
